WINTER 2019 Volume 89 Number 3 MAGAZINE

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Ready Don’t Call It an Internship Opportunity Creating 24 Page Developing a Plan for Success Competent & Workplace & Workplace Career

Abbie Darst ‘03, Editor Kim Brown, Associate Vice President for Marketing and Communications Bernadine Douglas, Vice President for Alumni and College Relations Jackie Collier ‘80, Associate Vice President for Alumni Relations Emily A. Parrish, Senior Graphic Designer Crystal Wylie ‘05, Contributing Editor

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Cora Allison ’22, Abbie Tanyhill Darst ’03, Libby Jones, Tim Jordan ’76, Daniela I. Pirela Manares ’20, Jason Lee Miller

CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS: Oluwatobi Adejumo ’20, Cora Allison ’22, Moriah Avery ’21, Fahim Baig ’18, Jay Buckner, Dr. Javier Clavere, Abbie Tanyhill Darst ’03, Ray Davis ’11, Desiree Dunn ’21, Anna Joines ’17, Jon Kemp ’19, Jennifer Lance ’20, Sarah-Anne Soares ’18, Crystal Wylie ’05

COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION Lyle D. Roelofs, President Jeffrey S. Amburgey, Vice President for Finance Sylvia Asante, Dean of Labor Chad Berry, Academic Vice President and Dean of the Faculty Virgil Burnside, Vice President for Student Life Huapei Chen, Chief Information Officer Bernadine Douglas, Vice President for Alumni and College Relations Derrick Singleton, Vice President for Operations and Sustainability Linda Strong-Leek, Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Teri E. Thompson, Vice President for Strategic Initiatives Judge B. Wilson II, General Counsel and Secretary

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Cover photo by Jay Buckner Photo illustration by Charlie C Campbell FSC LOGO Featuring Bashiri Sawyer ‘22 from Nicholasville, Ky. FEATURES 6 | Developing a Plan for Success The Office of Internships and Career Development helps students uncover their passions and directs them toward career opportunities. 11 | Best Foot Forward New clothing grant helps upcoming graduates start their career search on the right foot. 12 | Shelter Kayla Kinker Suma ’11 details her journey from homelessness to resident physician. 14 | Don’t Call it an Internship

CONTENTS Directed field experiences allow students to put their entrepreneurial thinking to work over the summer. 21 | Labor Transcripts More than a résumé: official labor transcripts provide detailed insight into a Berea student’s work experience. 22 | At the Helm From agriculture to the high seas, Charlotte Mundy ‘95 shares how Berea prepared her for leadership in the U.S. Coast Guard. 24 | Creating Opportunity New electronic music study opportunity opens career possibilities for Berea’s music majors. 28 | Course Spotlight Faculty perspectives on one of Berea’s general studies writing courses that are as unique as the professors who teach them. 30 | Better Connections Berea College faculty and alumni team up to help computer science students build human as well as technical networks. 32 | Taking it to the Next Level A two-year NCAA grant is allowing Kevin Kim ‘18 to hone his skills in sports information, where he worked as a student. 33 | Spring 2019 Athletic Schedules Follow your Berea Mountaineers at home or on the road with the spring athletic schedules.

Oluwatobi Adejumo Oluwatobi ’20 Online Exclusive: Watch a video on Crime, Law and Justice, a general studies class where students process a crime scene and prepare their prosecution or defense in a mock trial before a jury at www.berea.edu/magazine.

SUMMER 2018 3 Trustees and Councils

Lyle D. Roelofs, President

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Diane Artist Wallace ‘80 MEMBERS-AT-LARGE Robert T. Yahng ‘63, Chairman of the Board Stephanie B. Zeigler Betty Jean Hall ’68, VA Joseph John Bridy, Vice Chair of the Board Adam Hardin ’97, OH Vicki E. Allums ‘79 HONORARY TRUSTEES David Kretzmann ’14, VA Celeste P. Armstrong ‘90 John Alden Auxier ‘51 Cory Payton ’15, KY Charlotte F. Beason ‘70 James T. Bartlett Evan Robinson ’08, NC Vance Blade ‘82 Martin A. Coyle Tamika Weaver ’97, GA Anne Berry Bonnyman Elissa May-Plattner Destiny Harper-Lane ’06, TX David H. Chow Thomas H. Oliver Don Hodges ’00, OH Charles D. Crowe ‘70 David S. Swanson Martina Jackson ’11, KY M. Elizabeth Culbreth ‘64 R. Elton White Frank Polion ’90, KY John E. Fleming ‘66 Dawneda F. Williams Elizabeth Mullins Robinette ’82, IN Michael D. Flowers Lara Zavalza-Neeson ’13, KY Donna S. Hall ALUMNI EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 2018-19 V. Eldon Ball ’70, VA Scott M. Jenkins Deborah Byrd Thomas ’80, Sherry McCulley-Hall ’81, NC Glenn R. Jennings ‘82 President, AL Robert Phillips ’90, TX Shawn C.D. Johnson Jennifer Hale Stafford ’92 Ashley Long Seals ’08, VA Ken Koh Past-President, KY Tran Nguyen ’17, IN Nancy “Nana” Lampton Joe Saleem ’08 Emmanuel Ampofo-Tuffuor ’88, NJ Eugene Y. Lowe Jr. President-Elect, KY Dwayne Compton ’01, KY Betty H. Olinger ‘69 Dr. Lyle D. Roelofs Bernard “Barney” Davis ’56, KY Thomas W. Phillips ‘65 President of Berea College, KY Jane Miller Hutchens ’71, KY Miriam “Mim” Pride Jackie Collier ’80, Associate Vice President Monica Manns ’96, VA William B. Richardson for Alumni Relations, KY Dennis R. Roop ‘69 Bernadine Douglas, Vice President ALUMNI TRUSTEES Charles Ward Seabury II for Alumni and College Relations, KY Charles D. Crowe ’70, TN David E. Shelton ‘69 Member of Executive Committee, Celeste P. Armstrong ’90, AL David B. Sloan ‘72 To be appointed Dr. Betty H. Olinger ’69, KY Tyler S. Thompson ‘83 Diane Artist Wallace ’80, KY Rocky S. Tuan ‘72

4 SUMMER 2018 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Dear Berea Alumni and Friends, More than 15 years ago, the C-SPAN CEO, Brian Lamb, spoke at a College convocation. His charisma and passion for the network he’d created more than 20 years prior was infectious. The night before the convocation, Lamb dined at the president’s home with Communications Department faculty. At that point, in the fall of 2002, the communications major was only a few months old, and the handful of department faculty members were asked to invite a student to dinner. I was fortunate to be one of only two students in attendance. I talked with Mr. Lamb about his career in journalism, his founding of C-SPAN and his desire to engage young people in the industry. He talked briefly about internship possibilities and encouraged me to apply. I left that night on cloud nine—a little overwhelmed, but ecstatic about the possibilities that lie ahead. Even with such a large foot in the door, I still worked hard to earn an internship with C-SPAN. After months of written applications, over- the-phone interviews and lots of prayer, I received the coveted phone call offering me an internship in C-SPAN’s marketing department that summer. The internship was unpaid and Washington, D.C. is an expensive place to live. So the College’s career development office stepped in and provided me a stipend to work through the summer, giving me the ability to say yes to this amazing opportunity. The experience I had at C-SPAN opened the door for launching my career in journalism, public relations and marketing. Today, Berea has grown its resources for helping students navigate their journeys from students to professionals. Their path to career readiness is lined with people from all areas of the College—from faculty members who are inspired to create new career opportunities for students in a challenging field, like Music Department chair, Dr. Javier Clavere, who unveils the department’s newest area of interest on page 24, to entire offices dedicated to helping students discern their distinct career path and empowering them to follow it. On page 6, you’ll learn how the resources and opportunities provided by the Office of Internships and Career Development give Berea students the confidence and skills to fulfill their career ambitions. But the true measure of success is in the stories of Berea’s alumni who have taken what Berea offered and not only pursued their dreams, but changed their lives and the lives of those they’ve served. On page 12 discover how Kayla Kinker Suma ’11 went from a homeless high school student to a successful obstetrician. Each page of this issue explores how Berea equips and challenges its students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends to push the envelope, dream big, give of themselves and pursue a life and career of excellence that leaves this College and this world in better hands.

Abbie Tanyhill Darst ’03 Editor

SUMMER 2018 5 DEVELOPING A PLAN for Success Berea’s Office of Internships and Career Development gives students the tools they need for success after college

By Abbie Tanyhill Darst ’03

he class of 2018 is graduating into an economy on the up- swing. In May, the unemploy- Tment rate dropped below 4 percent for the first time since 2000. However, according to the Economic Policy Institute, underemployment rates hover around 11 percent, meaning competition still is high for jobs that require college degrees and allow graduates to work in fields for which they spent four to six years studying. Thanks to the efforts of Berea’s Office of Internships and Career Devel- opment, Berea students have the ability to enter the job search with confidence. They not only are armed with a high- quality education and built-in work experience, but also, with the help of Berea’s 2018 Shepherd interns pose for a fun picture at the Shepherd Internship Program opening conference. The program unites students with agencies that work to benefit impoverished members of society. Students the staff of that office, they have had work with agencies that fit their intellectual interests in order to develop their experience and skills for future the opportunity to explore career civic involvement and employment. discernment, to develop a post-Berea action plan and to take part in career- career decision making; to explore career you don’t know why, what, where and specific internships. options in different majors; and to plan how, then it will go down in flames.” proactively for internships, gap experi- Tudor has been with Berea for three ences, full-time employment and/or years, counseling students on how to Career Development graduate school. identify their career goals by understand- Career development is the student’s first “It’s really about discernment and ing how their skills, personality, major, step toward identifying their career meaningful themes,” said Amanda interests, values and passions weave aspirations and developing a plan to get Tudor, Berea’s Career Development together to create meaningful themes, there. The Career Development program director. “Being career ready just denotes pointing them toward career opportuni- at Berea College offers career counseling having a résumé, interview skills, etc. ties that align with the core of who they appointments to support students in You can have a beautiful résumé, but if are.

6 WINTER 2019 “We start with what they feel called to do,” Tudor explained. “We talk about why they chose their major, why they are doing internships and research, volunteering and involving themselves in various things. How does all of that come together?” With some creative mind mapping and introspectively looking at the way their interests, talents and passions intersect, students can begin making decisions about potential careers. From there, they move into goal setting, creating tailored résumés and cover letters, targeting “best-fit” employers, exploring occupational trends and networking with Berea alumni in those career areas. “It’s important for our students to Ana Gutierrez Roman ’21 interned this past summer at the Tennessee Immigrant & Refugees Rights Coalition learn how to tell an employer how Berea (TIRRC) in Nashville, Tenn., where she worked with the policy department on ways to better serve the com- has transformed them,” Tudor said. munity. “Berea is one in a million, and that transformation looks different for our graduates than for anyone else, anywhere they see between 40 and 50 students, MIND MAPS else. We want students to connect the per course, each year. On top of all of A mind map is a graphical way to represent emotion of their story in a tailored way that, Career Development partners with ideas and concepts. It is a visual thinking so they can share it with an employer to Internships to host “Lunch with the tool that helps structure information, helping better analyze, comprehend, show how they are unique candidates.” Recruiter” events and targeted, small- synthesize, recall and generate new ideas. Much of this work is done in scale employer networking events where In a mind map, as opposed to traditional one-on-one sessions. In an average both students and employers can get to note taking or a linear text, information is school year, Tudor or Career Develop- know each other and discover what each structured in a way that resembles much more closely how your brain actually works. ment Coordinator Trisha Turner has to offer the other. These events Since it is an activity that is both analytical conduct 450 to 500 individual appoint- replace large-scale career fairs that often and artistic, it engages your brain in a much ments with students. In addition, are not well attended or not successful richer way. Tudor and Turner also teach courses for students or employers, Tudor on enhancing career development and explained. But Tudor and Turner’s enthusiasm preparing for graduate school, in which Career development also is responsi- goes beyond just providing funds. ble for numerous career events each year Turner’s GRE prep sessions are key to including hosting a law school panel, a the success of Berea’s students on these RESOURCES FOR ALUMNI graduate and professional school event, graduate exams. The College covers the Handshake is a career management platform used by more than 600 colleges Cornell Weekend where students cost of study materials, ranging from and universities and by thousands of network and learn professional job- $150 to $300 and the cost of the GRE, employers nationwide for recruiting. Alumni search strategies from Cornell University which is $205. can utilize Handshake to recruit and post MBA students, a Dress for Success “What we found was just paying the internship or full-time positions for Berea students on behalf of their current employ- fashion show (see p. 11 for more bill wasn’t helping students get the scores ers, search and apply for opportunities information on the fashion show and they were hoping for,” Tudor explained. themselves, explore companies, manage clothing grant) and seven weekend “What we realized is that we needed to their networking connections, and access GRE prep sessions. help students break through barriers, valuable tools and resources provided by the Office of Internships & Career Development. “It took me two years to get my and not just financial barriers. In the To sign up for a Handshake Alumni and/or head around having funding to pay for busyness of Berea, how can we help Employer account, visit https://berea. students’ GRE tests,” Tudor said. “No them with learning how to take stan- joinhandshake.com/register or contact Sara Cornett at [email protected]. other career center does anything close dardized tests and provide the time and to that.” space to study for these exams?”

WINTER 2019 7 In addition to all of these on- campus activities and support, Career Development also gets students off campus to visit graduate schools, attend conferences and even shop for professional attire for interviews. All of these activities have helped numerous Berea students succeed in transitioning to graduate or professional school or into successful careers immediately after graduating.

Internships In summer 2018, 247 Berea students representing 32 majors participated in internships in 33 states and five coun- tries. Whether serving in non-profit organizations or big corporations, in the Senior Economics major Chamal Mediwaka completed a summer internship with the United Nations in New Appalachian region or at Pearl Harbor, York. His work primarily related to the Economic & Financial Committee and assisting in the economic, social Hawaii, these students gained invaluable and trade-related work of the Permanent Mission of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the United Nations. experience preparing them for the professional world. “There are students who don’t do as types of internships are out there that discussions with Livingston or Cornett well in the classroom setting who thrive may fit within their career aspirations help students narrow down potential in an experiential, hands on setting,” and how to find them. Of the three internship sites that may be a good fit. said Esther Livingston, Berea’s director sessions, this one is not mandatory for “Sometimes a student finds the ideal of Internships. “It’s a really important all students seeking internships. Some internship by discovering a posting, and way to learn.” students have already identified a sometimes it’s through a cold call to a Livingston and Internship Coordi- particular area or internship opportunity company that intrigues the student to nator Sara Cornett, support students in and just need assistance with the process. figure out if they have internships identifying and applying for internships Sessions two and three are mandato- available, or would consider offering one that support students’ ultimate career ry for all students seeking their first for a student interested in a particular plans. That support starts with a internship. Titled “Applying for Intern- field,” Cornett said. three-session program. The first session, ships” and “How to Receive Credit and Since Berea funds up to two intern- “Finding and Creating Your Ideal Funding for Your Internship,” these two ships for students before graduation, Internship,” assists students in identify- sessions move students from the idea students don’t have to worry about ing possible internships. It puts students phase of landing the perfect internship whether or not their dream internship is on the beginning track to knowing what to realistically achieving their goals. paid for by the sponsoring company or “When we talk about applying for organization. That frees them up to internships, so many haven’t done a pursue those internships that most excite DID YOU KNOW: professional application yet,” Livingston them, while also enabling them to earn Each year a small group of Berea students said. “So these sessions touch on re- the income they need from summer spend a summer working at a diverse non-profit in rural Yamanashi Prefecture, sumes, interviews, applications and how work. One example is student Logan Japan, located just a few hours west of to present oneself in a professional Paisley, an Applied Science and Mathe- Tokyo? The internships are offered as a setting.” matics major who wanted to do an partnership between Berea College and the Students must participate in these internship in civil engineering and Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project (KEEP), a non-profit economic and commu- three sessions before they can schedule a needed to stay in Kentucky. Livingston nity development project that is rooted in one-on-one appointment with the found a company in Lexington. She and the Christian principle of service to others. Internship office, where students can Logan explored its website together, and Learn more about how you can support delve more deeply into where they need he was excited by the projects the study/service abroad opportunities in Japan at www.berea.edu/ast. to go and what they want to do after company was undertaking. Though graduation. These brainstorming there was no mention of internship

8 WINTER 2019 possibilities on the website, Livingston the day that best fits with their major their internship and give presentations called the company and spoke directly to and career interests. at department-organized events once the one of its senior engineers, explaining The Internship office also serves as internship is complete. Each student Paisley’s interest. The engineer was open the central hub to support the College’s also completes an evaluation, identifying to the idea and asked Paisley to submit corporate relations efforts in regard to valuable components of the internship his résumé. He was able to land and internships and permanent professional experience and how it will affect future complete a fantastic internship with the positions. Employers with positions that career plans or their current academic company, Livingston said. are a good fit for several different majors studies. After the internships, students’ “I can see it in their eyes when we don’t want to contact faculty in all those supervisors also submit evaluations to find just the right place or position,” areas individually. Instead, they can the Internship office rating students’ Livingston said about working with contact Berea’s Internship office, which skills and specifying contributions students. “We can look at various uses a centralized, searchable database interns made to their organization. organizations and internships, and then called Handshake to post the informa- Often, employers are impressed all of a sudden their eyes light up, and tion and share it with faculty, staff and with Berea students. They give excellent it is clear that’s the one.” students. Providing a central place for feedback on their performance and In addition to the three sessions and many students to connect with a wide indicate interest in hiring more Berea individual appointments, Livingston and range of employers benefits everyone. students in the future. For example, a Cornett also host a variety of events to Handshake also allows students to doctor from Johns Hopkins University connect students to internship opportu- schedule their own appointments and is had a Berea intern over the summer and nities and prepare them for those used for event registrations, scheduling was so impressed with her that he flew experiences. Each fall they conduct and tracking appointments. down from Baltimore to participate in Internship Week, where they bring two Each student who participates in Internship Week in an effort to recruit to three employers to campus each day and receives funding for an internship is more Berea students and establish an for panel presentations and networking. held to a rigorous academic standard in ongoing partnership. The employers meet with students and order to receive credit for the internship. “By the time he was done here, he talk about their organizations and what Students keep reflective journals and wanted to know what he could do for they have to offer. Students know ahead submit them on a weekly basis to their Berea,” Livingston said. “It’s a win-win for of time which industries will be repre- faculty sponsor throughout the intern- his program and for the students that get sented at each luncheon and can choose ship, write a paper on a topic related to to put Johns Hopkins on their résumés.”

Angela Jarvis ’20 spent her summer interning at the Sophomore Jada Pettus helped advertise and plan weddings while interning this past summer at J. Ladson Topeka Zoo and Conservation in Kansas where she Weddings in Atlanta, Ga. educated children about animals and the environment through interactive programs and games.

WINTER 2019 9 One senior sales manager with Eli Lilly and Company gave Berea high praise after discovering the unique qualities of Berea’s students. “Berea students are impressive,” said Jeff Nowlin, Eli Lilly and Company senior district sales manager, after attending an event sponsored by Intern- ships and Career Development. “When I go to a career fair at a big university, I may talk with 50 to 75 students and find one or two that I will interview. At today’s event, I talked with seven students and could have hired any one of them. When Fortune 500 companies find out what you have here, they will be beating down your door.” Aligning Berea’s students with internships and career options that fit their distinctive passions and talents, and connecting them with opportunities Nathan Jose ’20 completed an internship at Sweetwater in Fort Wayne, Ind., in the company’s recording studio to explore graduate schools, careers, this past summer. He observed and worked with world-class studio functions, learning about tracking, mixing, industries and companies for which they mastering, interfacing with customers and producing both music and commercials. He also worked in Sweet- are best suited helps create a solid bridge water’s performance theater doing live sound. for Berea graduates leaving campus and entering the workforce or furthering their education. “We are working to communicate to students how to be intentional about their four years at Berea and what’s expected and available to them each year,” Livingston said. “We identify benchmarks and markers and talk about how to make the most use out of their time here, so when they are crossing that stage at graduation, they have a plan, and they are equipped to take their next strategic steps.” B

GIVING MAKES IT POSSIBLE The average cost to fund one student internship is approximately $4,000. Each year Berea College helps fund approximately 175 to 200 internship opportunities. That expense coupled with the other unique experiences the Office of Internships and Career Development provides quickly add up. Much of the funding support comes from generous donors and friends who believe in the value of developing students and providing career experiences that best prepare Berea graduates to step into the world and make a significant impact. Junior Communications major Noah Hughes interned this past summer at Western Kentucky University Athletic Department in Bowling Green, Ky. He assisted with summer research projects, media guide production and updating of the athletic website.

10 WINTER 2019 Best Foot Forward Berea College’s clothing grant transforms students into professionals

By Daniela I. Pirela Manares ’20

Making a good impression during an interview is a key factor in getting that job. Besides giving the right answers, looking and feeling good is important as well. For a Berea College student, dressing professionally can be a new, unfamiliar, and even foreign experience, and, for this, the College offers students a Clothing Fund grant. Through the Office of Internships and Career Development, students can receive financial assistance to buy professional clothes. “We try to help the students buy a brand new suit and smaller pieces to help them build a professional wardrobe for when they start working, going to grad school or other future endeavors,” said Trisha Turner, career development coordinator. In addition, as a way to promote the $250 grant, the department hosts a fashion show, which began last fall. Partnering with a Macy’s stylist, Turner and Amanda Tudor decided to invite students to see their peers modeling various professional looks and business attire. While doing so, the stylist explains the look and offers tips and recommen- dations. After that, the students sign a contract agreeing to certain terms and conditions and then Moriah Avery ’21 receive an invitation to go on the shopping trip. Students participating in the Fashion Expo program walk the ‘runway’ showing off their new professional The shopping trip transports students to attire. Students received a $250 clothing grant to purchase professional clothing from the Office of Internships Lexington to shop for clothes. As an added bonus, and Career Development. Turner explained that Macy’s opens the store exclusively to these students so they can shop before the store is open to the public. wearing. We want them to focus on where they in the program aced their interviews and landed “We will have breakfast, coffee, help the want to go, what they’re going to say, and getting internships and jobs. students shop, and get discounts,” Turner said. the job.” “The program is helpful in adequately “Fun, shopping and clothes,” she said with a The clothing grant is just one more way preparing students to look the part of a profes- laugh. “Seeing students try on clothes and feel Berea invests in its students. “It made me feel sional,” said Aaron M.J. Lange, a model for this professional is fun.” prepared, like I was professional,” said Neidy year’s fashion show and a grant recipient. This year, the department added the Fashion Rodríguez, a recipient of the fund. “No matter Like him, other students have shown their Expo program, which is available to all students what career you’re in, Berea College wants you gratitude to the college. who want to participate. It consists of various to be professional.” “I think the fact that they consider giving us activities, including a makeup artist who gives Looking ahead, Turner said she would like money shows us—shows me—that they believe makeup and skin care tips, as well as access to to increase the amount of the grant so students I have a chance to do and to be something more tailors to measure male students for suits. Turner can buy more clothing. But looking past the than just a student,” Rodríguez said. “They want explained that the event was created as a way to money, she wants students to have fun with the me to succeed.” help students reach out earlier, so when they go experience. Often times, students feel confused Hearing success stories and seeing the to Macy’s or any other store, they are not as lost. or lost, so the objectives of both the Fashion students trying on clothes is a motivation for She emphasized the importance of wanting Show and Fashion Expo are simultaneously Turner. people to look their best. guidance and reassurance for students in their “The department wants to help people know “Not all colleges do this,” Turner said. “It path to looking professional. what they want to look like in the professional can be very stressful to find a nice suit or nice “I want this to be an event students look world, what their fashion sense is, and how to outfit to wear to an interview. We don’t want forward to attending,” Turner said. She recalled make it appropriate so that they can put their best students to be stressed out about what they’re several instances where students who participated foot forward.” B

WINTER 2019 11

ShelterFrom Couch Surfer to Resident (Physician)

By Jason Lee Miller

er dorm room at Pearson’s shelter, and we would go over college assistance, she joined cell biology Hall was the nicest place Kayla applications, my work schedule and my researchers at Vanderbilt University. Kinker ’11 had ever lived. As obligations,” Kinker said. “For the first Again she presented at the Kentucky Ha teen in Covington, Ky., Kinker and time in my life, someone was keeping Academy of Sciences and won first place her mother had no home to call their track of where I was at any given time. for her oral presentation. own. They stayed on couches in the She made sure I applied to Berea.” “This was all thanks to Berea,” homes of family members and friends. Berea, too, became one of Kinker said. “I don’t think I could Kayla would not have a semi-permanent the only steady situations have gotten into the Vander- place to stay until her senior year in in Kinker’s life. She bilt Summer Science high school, when she moved into The moved into a Academy without Welcome House, a shelter for women residence hall, Berea’s connection and children, alone. majored in to the program.” “It sounds kind of awful,” Kinker biology and Berea’s admitted, “but it was really a blessing. continued connection was They were really good to me there, and her cheering through it was the first time I had a reliable career. Even alumnus and place.” in the Berea College Many of us may take for granted summers, Trustee Dr. Hal simple things like electricity or clean when her Moses, the clothes to wear, but not Kinker. residency status director of the “We never had a washer and dryer would inevitably Vanderbilt-Ingram or a car to go to the laundromat,” she become shaky again, Cancer Center. Kinker said. “The Welcome House was a big Berea provided construc- found herself among students relief for me. They had a washer and tive opportunities. The summer from elite institutions like Harvard. A dryer there. They provided meals and following her freshman year, Kinker similar situation followed for her final even bus passes so I could get to and landed a summer research internship summer research stint at the Mayo from work without difficulty.” with the Kentucky Biomedical Research Clinic, where she and more affluent Despite her circumstances, Kinker Infrastructure Network at the University students from Ivy League schools joined excelled academically and socially. She of Kentucky. Berea assisted with her Berea alumnus Dr. David Carbone, who was at the top of her class, enrolled in summer living expenses on UK’s campus ran a lab there. the prestigious and difficult Internation- while she participated in the program. “This was the first time I had my al Baccalaureate Program. She cheered, Kinker researched DNA integrity, and own animal model, which was an did chorus and theater. Nonetheless, the following semester, she presented her incredible opportunity,” Kinker said. before coming to live at the shelter, she research at the Kentucky Academy of Again, she presented her research, considered withdrawing from school to Sciences. and again she won first place in oral work. Thankfully, someone at the time She continued the pattern of finding presentation. Kinker attributes her had taken a keen interest in her success. summer opportunities for the rest of her presentation skills to her Berea labor “I had a case worker who would college career. The summer following position as a biology teaching assistant. meet me at the high school or the her sophomore year, again with Berea’s “When I graduated, that strong

12 WINTER 2019 research background helped me get my first job at Cincinnati Children’s Hospi- tal Medical Center.” At Cincinnati Children’s, Kinker worked in immunology while her new husband, Dominic Suma ’11, worked on his master’s degree. Two years later, both Kayla and Dominic matriculated at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. Together, they joined the medical school’s Rural Physician Leader- ship Program, where students spend their clinical years at different rural hospitals across the state. “I couldn’t have done any of this without Berea’s help,” Kinker said. “If I had gone somewhere else, I may have done a year or two of school and left because there’s no way anybody could have supported me the way Berea did.” She also credits the people who encouraged her growing up. “People told me I could do anything I wanted, and I believed them,” Kinker reminisced. “Maybe I was naïve as a child, but it’s true that people have been very support- ive and have done whatever they could to ease my burden. Even though I didn’t have a lot of financial support growing up, and though my mom had to work a lot and wasn’t there physically, I’ve had a lot of support from teachers and others.” Kinker suggested the support she received from Berea helped level the playing field at places where more affluent students had the parental and financial support she could only dream of. And because, during the academic year, she was enrolled among other economically disadvantaged students, she never felt out of place. “At Berea, we’re all coming from difficult financial backgrounds,” she said, “so there never was the sensation that ‘of Kayla Kinker Suma ’11 and her husband Dominic Suma ’11 pose for a photo together. Kayla and Dominic course you got an A on the test because attended Berea and medical school together. you didn’t have to work this week.’” Today, Kinker is the resident physician in the field of obstetrics and gynecology at Memorial Health in I came to realize how much women’s pregnancy. Just to see how much that Savannah, Ga. Her choice of medical health impacts where they are in soci- impacts their ability to provide for their field was influenced by her time at The ety,” she said. “A lot of women had family and how society treats them made Welcome House. accidental pregnancies or weren’t able to me want to be an advocate for women’s “After living in the shelter for a year, work because of complications of health and a caregiver to them.” B

WINTER 2019 13 DON’T CALL IT AN Directed Field Experiences teach intentionality and design thinking

By Jason Lee Miller

Anna Heremes ’20 (far left) with other staff members at Louisville’s Americana World Community Center, where she completed her directed field experience this past summmer. Internship

14 WINTER 2019 ach year, the Entrepreneurship seven-week seminar focused around business development along these routes. for the Public Good (EPG) pro- design thinking, a creative problem- “Dr. Hackbert gave us an assign- gram accepts 20 first-year student solving methodology developed by the ment to create a map of all the cafes, Eapplicants to an immersive program Stanford d.school. During those seven restaurants, and places to visit in that culminates with a summer intern- weeks, the cohort for that summer London, Ky., for cyclists,” Anna ship. Only it’s not an internship, says studies the EPG Cycle of Abilities, a set Heremes ’20 said. “He never told us Dr. Peter Hackbert, EPG director. It’s of behaviors that enable students to be how. He gave us a car and some money Internshipa directed field experience. What’s the intentional in their actions by engaging for food and said, ‘Go. Talk to people, difference? complexity and uncertainty, exploring to strangers, to the tourism department. In a word, intentionality. values and ethical structure, facilitating In two weeks, I need a map.’ And he “The reason I call it a directed field group decisions, recognizing opportuni- released us into the wild.” experience (DFE),” Dr. Hackbert said, ty, mobilizing resources and advocating “We do some element of that every “is because I want the students to be for change. year,” Dr. Hackbert said. “The business intentional about their selection. Many “The students aren’t just getting a models included Airbnbs, inns and opportunities are not advertised, and we degree,” Dr. Hackbert said. “They’re manufacturing facilities for tiny homes can use our reputation, relationships and making themselves up and discerning that could become villages for nature resources to help them craft something the value they’re creating in themselves. tourists,” he explained. they want to explore with a community The program reveals to them the In addition to reinforcing a sense of partner.” knowledge and skills gained from intentionality, all the students consulted It’s also an experience directed by entrepreneurial leadership mindsets for this article said the first summer Dr. Hackbert and other faculty advisors, and behaviors.” really hammered home the first item on who help students create opportunities In practice, what that looks like for the Cycle of Abilities list: engaging to explore their desired fields, whether it students between their first and sopho- complexity and uncertainty. involves graduate research, accounting, more years is to conduct real-life “It teaches us to be comfortable sustainable design or any number of community-based field work by advanc- with not knowing what’s going on,” other fields. It helps students, too, by ing entrepreneurship in Appalachia. The Brandon Pollock ’19 said. “We learned allowing them to test out a professional students divide into teams of five to how to overcome that positively, how to position and decide whether or not it’s explore opportunities in the region. be intentional with ourselves and take truly for them. For the last several summers, EPG control of our outcomes.” The EPG program was established in students have been working on bicycle Learning to deal with uncertainty 2002 as a two-summer, intensive learning tourism in Kentucky. The common- that first summer helps students succeed experience to practice social entrepreneur- wealth has 856 miles of connected in their second summer, when they do ial leadership in Kentucky and Appala- bicycle-friendly roads, ranking the state their DFEs. chia. More than $7 million in endowed fifth nationally. In previous summers, “The way EPG prepared me for the funding was raised for the program EPG students played a role in getting DFE,” said Rodney Kimbangu ’20, who during Berea’s sesquicentennial fundrais- approval at the state and federal levels did his DFE with the New York Film ing campaign. With two endowed chairs specifically for U.S. Bike Routes 76 and Academy, “was by equipping me with the to lead students in fostering creative 21, which cross in Berea. U.S. Bike tools the first summer that allowed me to problem solving and leadership, the Route 21 follows the Daniel Boone be proactive, focused and intentional program built upon and complemented Trace and heads north beyond Fort with what I wanted to do with my life an already existing internship program as Boonesborough to Maysville, linking without knowing exactly what that was.” well as the Brushy Fork Institute’s civic a cycling route from Atlanta, Ga., to leadership initiatives. Cleveland, Ohio. To learn more about Entrepreneurship for the Public Good visit https://epg.berea.edu The first summer after their accep- In summer 2018 the most recent tance into the program is an immersive EPG cohort explored ways to encourage

WINTER 2019 15 Rodney Kimbangu ’20 [New York Film Academy]

Rodney Kimbangu spent eight weeks tions by directing, producing, writing, Kimbangu sees his DFE experience in Burbank, Calif., with the New York editing, sound and photography instruc- as an opportunity to learn by making Film Academy. His experience was tors or working on their feature films. mistakes, a luxury not afforded to funded by a Sloane Shelton Arts and “For the larger projects,” Kimbangu professional filmmakers. Humanities Grant, awarded to Berea explained, “we had 12-hour shoots “The DFE allowed me to make students pursuing immersive off-campus because in the film industry a day of intelligent mistakes so I could see what experiences. While at the academy, he work is 12 hours. We mimicked what I needed to work on. That is its own gift learned how to produce, write, direct, happens in the industry.” because when you’re working in the film and edit a short feature film. He Growing up in the Congo, the industry, you don’t have the time or assisted other classmates with their films, studio art and film double major knew opportunity to make mistakes. Before as well, working as a production assis- he wanted to be a filmmaker and started the DFE, I was probably 25 percent tant, camera operator or assistant taking classes online. He says attending confident in my ability to be a filmmak- director. In total, Kimbangu worked on the NYFA was a dream come true for er. Now I’m at 80 percent.” six film projects in eight weeks. him, and the experience showed him He believes saying 100 percent is The would-be filmmakers pulled what his limitations were and how to “too braggy.” “I still see room for acting talent from NYFA acting stu- address them. It also showed him what improvement,” he added. dents. “When we didn’t have the chance his new capabilities were. to work with actors, we ended up acting “After we graduated, a colleague our own projects,” Kimbangu said. looked at my website, where I had “When we were not directing or produc- marketed myself as a cinematographer. ing, we were acting in another person’s He said, ‘You need to change that. You’re production.” not a cinematographer anymore. You are Their days stretched from eight to a producer, writer, director, cinematog- 12 hours, depending on whether they rapher and editor. That makes you a were attending lectures and demonstra- filmmaker.’” Jennifer Lance ’20

Future filmmaker, Rodney Kimbangu ’20, adjusts the camera during his DFE experience with the New York Film Academy in Burbank, Calif., home to Warner Brothers Studios.

16 WINTER 2019 Brandon Pollock ’19 [Make-a-Wish Foundation] Desiree Dunn ‘21

Brandon Pollock ’19 opted to do two DFEs, one between his sophomore and junior year with The Resource Group, a hospital supply chain solution company, and another with the Make-a-Wish Foundation this past summer. The typical volunteer, Pollock said, made it about three years before diversi- Brandon Pollock grew up in Knoxville, the reasons and meanings behind things. fying their involvement, perhaps by Tenn., never having a clear idea of who “I thought it was a lot of fun,” giving more and volunteering less. he wanted to be. He just resolved to Pollock said. “It really lays the ground- “It started making us wonder how work hard and follow his passions, and work for going deeper into corporate to get them to give of themselves a little it’s always just worked out for him. A finance, which is what I am interested longer.” business major set to graduate in May, in, trying to solve problems for business- By the end of the summer, the Brandon now looks five years down the es and looking at the bigger picture. It answer wasn’t any clearer, but Brandon road and sees himself pursuing his helps you to take a critical-thinking lens left with the accomplishment of identi- MBA, even if it’s unclear where he’ll end to all the fundamentals of business.” fying the stress points and getting the up working after college. This is just part His second summer, though, added conversation going. of the reason he opted to do two DFEs, some feeling to the process. Interning “Field experience internships in one between his sophomore and junior with the Make-a-Wish Foundation, general are pretty important,” Pollock year with The Resource Group, a Pollock says he became emotional a said. “It’s taught me more about what hospital supply chain solution company, number of times as the organization I’m looking for in a job and what it and another with the Make-a-Wish worked to fulfill the desires of terminally means to work. Those two DFEs helped Foundation the following summer. ill children. There were four typical me see a path for the next three to five At The Resource Group in upstate wishes, he said: the wish to be, to have, to years so I have a better idea of the skills I New York, Pollock learned the ropes of go or to meet—with the wish to go being want to work on, what I want to be and group purchasing, economies of scale the most requested. Most wanted to go to what I don’t want to be.” and financial analysis. He made a Disney World, though many could not The most valuable thing Brandon significant impact that summer by due to physical limitations. In those cases, says he’s learned through the experience reviewing contracts and discovering Make-a-Wish made an effort to bring is the type of place he wants to work. about $20,000 in savings for the Disney to them. Brandon’s job wasn’t to “I want to work in a place with a company. Pollock came to view a make those things happen, but to analyze fast-paced, numbers-driven environment financial statement as “a piece of art” the organization’s volunteer database and where emotions are not really tied into that pushed him to use his foundational identify critical points where volunteers it, where at the end of the day the knowledge to look deeper and discover become fatigued and leave. business is serving the customer.”

WINTER 2019 17 Anna Heremes ’20 [Americana World Community Center] Jennifer Lance ’20

have recently escaped war zones and other traumatic experiences. “A lot of those children have post-traumatic stress disorder,” Heremes said. “My main objective wasn’t really to teach them things. It was to help them find resilience and to face problems in Growing up amidst war in the Ukraine helped Anna Heremes ’20 (back, left) relate to the children at Louis- their lives and in school.” ville’s Americana World Community Center. She completed her DFE as an aide to fifth-grade teachers working “I had a student from Syria who with refugee children. was escaping war,” she said. “I could see a lot of death in his writings. His colors Anna Heremes developed a love of She completed her DFE with were very dark, and I was concerned.” languages while attending high school in Louisville’s Americana World Commu- Heremes felt connected to the the Ukraine. There, she added English nity Center, which serves immigrant children because she, too, had been and French to her native Ukrainian and and refugee communities by providing affected by war. Russian languages. Now, as an education services like family counseling, youth “Right now, there’s a war in major minoring in French, Heremes programs, and after-school and summer Ukraine, and my dad is in the war intends to teach English as a Second programs, among many others. She zone,” she said. “Because of it, my Language one day—or French in Canada, joined the summer program as an aid country is in crisis, and my family is if it doesn’t work out in the U.S. to the fifth-grade teachers working to suffering.” As a youth in Ukraine, Heremes help refugee children keep up in their When she saw the stories of the chil- attended a specialized school for lan- new schools. dren at the Americana World Commu- guage education while her father served One of the most important objec- nity Center website, she wanted to be a in the ongoing military conflict between tives of her internship was building close part of it. “It was in my heart to help Ukraine and Russia. An overachiever, relationships with the students in order those people,” she said. she was named Student of the Year in to serve as a positive role model. Heremes learned about herself, as 10th grade, which led to her election as “I worked in the south Louisville well, especially in regard to how an class president. That role led to her area,” she explained, “where a third of environment like that affects her working on a youth council with the the population lives in poverty and half physically and emotionally. mayor. She volunteered, tutored other of the population consists of refugees “I learned that you have to take time students in English, and founded an and immigrants.” during the day to get yourself together, English conversation club that attracted Heremes worked with children from and that when you come home, you 30 to 50 students each week. Mexico, Vietnam, Thailand, Syria and have to leave work at work,” she said. “I “When I told my mom I was going the Congo. learned that if I don’t recharge, I won’t to Berea,” Heremes recalled, “she said Among the challenges of working be able to help. My internship really put she was used to me not being home.” with this population of children is many things into perspective.”

18 WINTER 2019 Benhardt Christson ’19 [Bank of America Merrill Lynch]

Senior accounting and finance major challenges they face,” Christson said. When I came in as a first-year student, Benhardt Christson learned from his His next challenge comes the Goldman Sachs wasn’t even in my first directed field experience that summer after he graduates, when he will purview of a job I could actually land. pushing through frustration is a neces- join an entry-level program with Through the EPG program and the two sary part of success. Between his sopho- Goldman Sachs. DFEs, I’ve made myself competitive.” more and junior years, he organized the “Without the DFEs,” Christson said, area’s first Daniel Boone Splash and “this opportunity wouldn’t be feasible. Dash, a swimming and running event for kids, sponsored by local businesses. Even though the event was free, Ben struggled to garner parents’ enthusiasm. But, by the end, the event attracted children from throughout the central Kentucky region and even from out of state. “The biggest lesson was to always have a smile on your face and push through frustration,” Christson said. He applied that lesson during his second DFE experience, working with Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Cincinnati, Ohio. “I wasn’t confident in my ability to fit in,” he said, noting an environment filled with serious people in business suits. “At Berea, even though we have labor positions, there’s still an understanding that we’re students trying to gain professional skills. But in this setting, practice was over.” But again he learned something beyond the fundamentals of finance. “I became more confident because I figured out they were just everyday people trying to make a living for themselves,” he said. “The fear went away when I actually got to talk to them.” While interning with the financial investment group, Christson learned the ropes of evaluating clients based on their time horizon—how long they had to work until they retired, what their risk preferences were and how much liquidi- ty they wanted. He also interviewed people he was working with, including

the market director for the entire Ohio Jennifer Lance ’20

Valley market. Senior accounting and finance major Benhardt Christson ‘19 garnered his second DFE experience working with “I was able to tap his brain about Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Cincinnati, Ohio. That experience helped him land a position in an entry-level where the firm is headed and what program with Goldman Sachs after his May 2019 graduation.

WINTER 2019 19 Kayla Barbour ’19 [Hellmuth + Bicknese Architects]

Kayla Barbour lives in a tiny house she and her father converted from an old construction office trailer. It serves two purposes. One is providing the 29-year- old non-traditional student a place of her own while she attends college. The other is to put her passion for sustainable living into practice. Barbour, a technology and applied design (TAD) major, installed a compost tumbler she designed as a final project in one of her TAD classes and built a solar panel that “can’t even charge an iPhone,” but was good experience for her in terms of her aspirations to go into sustainable design. Minoring in sustainability and Kayla Barbour ’19 desired an internship in the sustainable design field. She completed her DFE with Hellmuth environmental studies, Barbour is putting + Bicknese Architects, the firm that designed Berea College’s Deep Green residence hall, the highest scoring her passion to work in her labor assign- LEED residence hall in the world at the time of its construction in 2013. ment as well, where she serves as Waste Diversion Program coordinator in the Office of Sustainability. Her goal in that employs three full-time staff. While position is to encourage recycling and there, she created a new website for the composting habits on campus any time firm; oversaw the tedious Living Build- there is an event with food. In conjunc- ing Challenge documentation for The tion, her senior capstone project is to College School’s Jan Phillips Learning design and install a sensor in the dining Center; participated in design briefs, hall that will more accurately record food consultations with clients and site visits; waste and make the data visually available and managed the office. to students eating there. “While I was there, they had the It is no surprise that when it came grand reopening of the Gateway Arch, time to do her directed field experience, and our firm was the LEED consultant Barbour desired an internship in the for the project,” Barbour said. “We got sustainable-design field. The opportunity to meet a lot of ‘who’s who,’ including presented itself when Dan Hellmuth of the Secretary of Interior.” Hellmuth + Bicknese Architects in St. Another benefit to working with the Jennifer Lance ’20 Louis, Mo., visited campus. This was the firm was how it complemented what heal. I did a lot of that while I was there, firm that designed Berea College’s Deep Barbour was already studying: environ- like helping redesign their office space.” Green residence hall, the highest scoring mental psychology and biophilic design. The most important lesson, Barbour Leadership in Energy and Environmen- Biophilic design entails incorporating says, was learning to be flexible in terms tal Design (LEED) residence hall in the natural elements into built spaces. of what her future career might look like. world at the time of its construction in “Hellmuth + Bicknese does a lot of “What I’m studying is applicable to 2013. Barbour approached Hellmuth design that’s focused on that, especially many fields,” she said. “Every industry about a directed field experience with his in schools and hospitals,” Barbour has room for sustainability and behavior firm, and he accepted her proposal. explained. “We live in this glass world systems. Anything we’re doing and The following summer, Barbour with a lot of unnatural stuff, so biophilic interacting with has room for sustainable began her position as a sustainable-de- design is reverting back to natural growth. I realized I can do a lot more sign intern at the small firm, which only things. It’s about creating spaces that than I originally thought.” B

20 WINTER 2019 Labor Transcripts: Another Way to Showcase Skill Sets

By Jason Lee Miller

The Labor Program is a specialist, says the how the applicant could aid in resolving them, crucial element of the transcript can help among other information. Berea College Educa- students frame their “Even if their labor assignment was in tion. Like academics, the experience in their own woodworking, if the information showcased primary goal is learning, minds. on the labor transcript is similar to that of an but the labor program “After college, academic transcript, a Berea student may have succeeds brilliantly for having something like a better chance of getting their foot in the door,” most students by this helps a person Woodall said. “They could have links to actual adding practical know what to search achievements and not just what courses they experience and for by helping them took.” Caleb Coffey ‘17 Desiree Dunn ‘21 applicable skill sets to think about the skills Berea’s dean of labor, Sylvia Asante, Collis Robinson ‘13 Rosanna Napoleon ‘13 the learning in academic they have learned and indicates the labor transcript can serve not only as course work. The Labor Program prepares a how these skills led to a mastery of things they a working résumé, but also as verified testament student for the world of work. Berea College also learned in their academic program,” Napoleon to a person’s true work history. documents this learning through a ‘labor said. “Berea is ahead of the game as far as transcript.’ This formal record lists the positions in Juli Maggard Woodall ’99, human resources working résumés are concerned,” Asante said. which the student worked while attending Berea consultant at Paychex, Inc., believes the labor “Historically, résumés have been personal and includes awards won as well as the transcripts could be beneficial in today’s chronicles of someone’s work record, which can evaluations submitted by labor supervisors at the job-hunting environment, where a traditional be false or true, while academic records are issued end of each semester. résumé may no longer be enough. by the institution with their stamps of approval. Just like an academic transcript, students “Résumés are two-dimensional items in a The unrivalled labor transcript at Berea demon- can request a copy of their labor transcript from three-dimensional world,” she said. Recent strates that as a document issued by the the registrar. Though the Berea labor transcript graduates have moved to providing portfolios and institution, it can compete with or be compared has only been around for about five years, older “working résumés,” of which a labor transcript to working résumés. The labor transcript is signed alumni can request one as well, so long as the could be a part. by the registrar, giving it institutional value and labor evaluation system was in place when they A “working résumé” includes an applicant’s merit.” B attended. recognition of a company’s unique challenges and “The labor transcript gives students an opportunity to show they didn’t work just any job,” said Collis Robinson ’13, director of student labor. “It shows a progression of responsibility. Maybe they started answering the phones or taking out the trash, but by the time they graduated, they ended up being student managers, running meetings, managing other people and working with schedules. It will show all the skills they’ve gained while at Berea and how well they did at their jobs.” The labor transcript isn’t unique to Berea. Other work colleges provide similar records of student employment, but there are only eight work colleges in the country, so most employers are not aware that such a useful credential exists. “Employers have to be made aware of it,” said Robinson. “It is not something they would know to ask for.” The concept is still new to students as well. The Labor Program has ramped up efforts at student orientations to inform them of what labor transcripts are and how they may be beneficial to them. Rosanna Napoleon ‘13, the Labor Program’s training and learning assessment

WINTER 2019 21 At the Helm How Berea prepared this 1995 alumna for a career she never expected

By Abbie Tanyhill Darst ’03

magine floating on the chilly waters and tried to find other schools with its After graduating in December of of the Pacific Ocean on the outskirts mission, but Berea stuck with me. It 1995, Mundy went on to earn a master’s of Kodiak, Alaska, being at the helm resonated with me how Berea ap- degree in horticulture sciences from Iof a 378-foot ship, bearing the responsi- proached its focus on Appalachia and North Carolina State University. She bility for safely guiding it into port. For first-generation college students.” worked odd jobs for several years, Deputy Commander Charlotte Mundy Mundy went back home to Mary- including using her degrees in a non- ’95, this was the setting in which all land that summer and profit co-op in Abingdon, Va. her training clicked, and she was able transferred to Berea in She eventually moved to to give all the proper engine and helm the fall. The Wilmington, N.C., on commands to guide her first ship moor- capricious a whim and fell in ing nearly 18 years ago. There, in that 19-year old love with the beach Alaskan port, Mundy confirmed what majored in community. has become a career-long enthusiasm for agriculture, Wilmington serving in the U.S. Coast Guard. which was also happens to “I love driving ships,” Mundy said. the closest be a huge Coast “That might sound crazy, but there is she could Guard town. something about putting a 378-foot ship come to Though Mundy where I want it to go—it’s an amazing environmental knew nothing feeling. Being able to do that myself is politics, she about the Coast awesome, but it’s also incredible to teach recalls. As to Guard before others how to do it and share that joy labor, she started moving to the coastal with them.” out working in the community, at age 26 she A career with the U.S. Coast Guard weaving department before decided to join the ranks for the was not what Mundy ever imagined moving to the College farm for several adventure and a steady paycheck. What when she found herself looking through years. Not finding her niche on the she thought would last maybe five years college catalogues in the library at farm, she returned to weaving, where turned into a 19-year career. Michigan State University one cold, she crafted rag rugs under the direction Despite her education and back- winter night in early 1991. After one of Bill Roberts. In all of these experienc- ground in agriculture not seeming to semester in Michigan, Mundy knew the es, she discovered the value of creative line up with an at-sea military vocation, huge university was not a good fit for and useful labor. her Coast Guard career became the her. She decided to search for other “Good hard work is good for you, culmination of the many ideas and college possibilities. She got as far as the and working for something can give you concepts Berea had fostered in her, Bs in the alphabetical catalogue before opportunities you wouldn’t otherwise chiefly pride in workmanship and a love she stumbled across Berea College. have—like the opportunity to directly for diversity. “I had never heard the concept of contribute to my own education so “This is not a typical career path for working for a school and not paying closely,” Mundy said. Berea College graduates, that’s for sure,” tuition,” she said. “I looked into it more Mundy said. “One thing that makes me

22 WINTER 2019 successful is the ability to see things from many different perspectives, and I first learned and was exposed to that at Berea.” The U.S. Coast Guard is a maritime military service with both a law enforcement mission and a federal regulatory agency mission, and it holds jurisdiction in both domestic and international waters. As Mundy has risen through the Coast Guard ranks, she has served all over the country and the world, including supporting Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom in the Northern Arabian Gulf and conducting homeland security, law enforcement, and search- and-rescue missions in the main Hawai- ian islands. She currently is stationed in Manama, Bahrain. Her duty assignments have surrounded her with diverse people and perspectives. “I’m a huge believer in diversity and the power of different perspectives, upbringings and backgrounds,” Mundy said. “That’s what allows for creativity and ingenuity, and what brings it all together and makes it work. Being exposed to different people and cultures in the Coast Guard brought that home to me, but I think Berea made it normal for me—made it so I could accept it easily in the Coast Guard.” Mundy’s career offered diverse experiences as well. With the Coast Guard’s law enforcement and homeland security mission, she has had many exciting encounters on open waters U. S. Coast Guard Dep. Commander Charlotte Mundy (left) and LTJG Elizabeth Runci aboard the DILIGENCE around the world. Once, she and her (WMEC 616) in 2016, on patrol in the Florida Straits. DILIGENCE is homeported in Wilmington, N.C. crew were 1,500 miles west of the Galapagos Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. After 10 days of pursuing what we just did—like landing a successful,” she said about her leadership a drug smuggler, as the sun dawned on helicopter on a ship in the middle of the role. the horizon, they came across a fishing ocean—but teamwork makes it seem so But even after 19 years and begin- boat with 5 tons of cocaine stacked on normal, as people draw upon their ning to look toward retirement, Mundy deck, ready for transfer. They were able different backgrounds and experiences.” said she still doesn’t truly know what she to seize all the drugs and detain the As a deputy commander, Mundy is wants to be when she grows up. smugglers, keeping that massive amount responsible for using her experience to “I’m looking forward to what’s after of cocaine off the streets of the U.S. provide people an opportunity to be the Coast Guard,” she said. “I don’t “Every now and then I feel like I’m their best self by ensuring they have the know what it will be, but I know I’ll in a Hollywood movie,” Mundy said tools, resources, time and equipment to have the opportunity to learn something about her experiences. “Not all days are successfully do their jobs. new, and that potential gives me so like that, but some are. There are many “I take an immense amount of pride much excitement.” B occasions on ship when I can’t believe and delight in watching others be

WINTER 2019 23 CREATING Berea’s budding area of interest in electronic music provides new career paths for music students

By Abbie Tanyhill Darst ’03 Photo by Dr. Javier Clavere

his summer, Nathan Jose ’20 took a giant step toward fulfilling his ultimate career goals. Jose completed a coveted internship at Sweetwater in Fort Wayne, Ind., working in the company’s Trecording studio. For three months, he observed and worked with world-class studio functions, learning about tracking, mixing, mastering, interfacing with customers and producing both music and commercials. He also worked in Sweetwater’s performance theater doing live sound. These are all skills Jose first learned in the Berea Music Depart- ment’s burgeoning electronic music area of interest and his labor position with Technology Resource Center (TRC) event production. From Bengaluru, India, Jose came to Berea as a computer science major, but his love for music soon defined a new direction for his life and career.

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Listen to students talk about their work in the electronic music lab at www.berea.edu/magazine.

WINTER 2019 25 “I always wanted to do music and Vann comes from a family of Berea’s students apart in this industry. In work with artists, helping their shows musicians, and her passion for music addition to their access to and working come to life and giving a good show for runs deep. It is her dream to take the knowledge of the industry’s leading the audience,” Jose said. “I really love satisfying feeling of creating music and equipment through Clavere’s composi- composition and creating stuff. This new share that with others. tion lab creation, Berea students often program provides all the tools I need. I “Being able to be creative and get add diversity to a field predominantly don’t usually get to work with expensive paid for it is what excites me most about populated by white males aged 18 to 30. gear. But we have all the gear we need to this career field,” Vann said. “I want a “Minorities and women are rare in work and write music.” job I truly like and not one that just this industry,” Clavere emphasized. For Music Department Chair Javier pays the rent. For me, that’s music. So, industry leaders are eager to Clavere, creating real-world career Making someone else feel good by balance the playing field while filling opportunities for students like Jose is the something I made is what I aim to do. their ranks with skilled, professional, driving force behind his creation of Music is like a language, and I use it to experienced young people. electronic music as a new area of interest communicate.” “It starts with the skill,” Clavere in the music major. Striving to give students like Vann clarified. “None of these students will Often, talented musicians and every opportunity to pursue their career obtain these positions based solely on performance majors find it challenging aspirations, Clavere has to find employment in the field after partnered with other offices graduation. Clavere’s new area gives and departments across Berea’s music majors a leg up in their campus such as TRC, field by equipping them with additional Theatre, and the Office of skills in digital media, composition and Internships and Career production. Development. Internships “I want these students to be career Director Esther Livingston ready,” Clavere said. “We are equipping and Clavere took a group them to get a job at a recording studio, of students on a tour of TV station, writing music for interactive Sweetwater last school year. video games, or a whole myriad of rising That experience allowed professions in the music industry.” Jose to discover the To this end, Clavere has spent the internship opportunities past three years acquiring the latest Sweetwater offered. recording and digital composition “These are nationally equipment and creating an electronic competitive internships, music laboratory. Now, students can and they are so hard to learn on and experiment with programs get,” Clavere said, explain- that cost hundreds of dollars and ing that nearly 500 stu- equipment that costs thousands of dents apply and only four dollars—tools they otherwise would not to five are selected. be able to access. Jose’s selection for the “Having access to this equipment Sweetwater internship was makes me feel more prepared,” said a win for Berea’s entire Imani Vann ’20, a music major from Music department, Clavere Cincinnati, Ohio. “A lot of the equip- said. ment used in the industry is really “They want Nathan expensive, so being able to use that back, and now that opens equipment before I get into the profes- the door for me to poten- sional world makes me feel better about tially send three more the experience I have. Dr. J (Javier students,” Clavere said. “It Anna Joines ‘17 Clavere) is preparing us for the future puts Berea’s name out there Nathan Jose ’20 completed a highly sought after internship at Sweet- and teaching us to do things that people and creates awareness about water in Fort Wayne, Ind., in the company’s recording studio this past summer. Music Department Chair Javier Clavere encouraged him to go to school for professionally or have what our students bring to apply and use the skills he learned in the new electronic music lab. the money to buy and use at a younger the table.” age.” Multiple factors set

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Jenifer Fidelia ’20 works on editing music in the Students in the Electronic Music area of interst run audio/visual equipment for a presentation in Gray Auditori- electronic music lab. Being from Indonesia, she says um in Presser Hall. This hands-on experience helps students better understand how the equipment works and having access to this equipment ‘is precious’ to her how to make adjustments quickly during a live event. and sets apart her education experience at Berea.

diversity. But once they have the skills naturally converging areas together. fall, respectively. and knowledge companies are looking “What I lack is that necessary After graduating, Boils said he for, their diverse backgrounds will make time to teach students on the technical would love to start composing for them more desirable.” side; my students need and want more movies, video games or plays as a Couple Berea’s diverse pool of of that,” Bentley said. “His (Clavere’s) full-time career immediately. talented students with their added students lack the labor side and the “I now have my name on two experience in the labor program, and practical application of their skills in different plays for theater,” Boils said. Berea’s students are a recipe for success. the field. It goes hand in hand. “That helps my portfolio, and I can say in Jose’s experience in his TRC labor “Finding a way to integrate the a job interview, ‘I’ve done this and this,’ position played a large role in successful- trade into the curriculum—that’s the and it will help ease me into the door.” ly landing his Sweetwater internship. ticket,” Bentley continued. “The most The emerging electronic music area TRC staff provide a myriad of multime- successful fields are those where tangible of interest excites Clavere and his dia services such as audio/visual confer- experience in the field is part of the students because it creates a path for ence services, video production and academic journey.” them to transition their love of music streaming, event production and Clavere and Bentley have teamed up into a viable career in an industry that is support, classroom media support and on events like the Carillon concert and growing rapidly. more. This hands-on experience with other Music department performances “Training needs experience, and audio/visual and event production where Clavere’s students who do not experience requires training, so what builds upon the skills Jose is learning on work in TRC have the opportunity to we’re offering is closing that loop,” the academic side with the electronic work with event production and experi- Clavere said. “This typically is a selective music elements of his studies. ence the practical application of some of and brutal business. It is very closed. “The academic side is learning the the skills they are developing in the This flips the light on and allows them equipment and figuring it out,” said composition lab. to keep that excited feeling they already Vernon Bentley, TRC multimedia In addition, Music department have about a music career.” B specialist and Jose’s supervisor. “But our students also are writing music for play Anna Joines ‘17 focus is on doing it. We do it as a labor performances in the College’s Theatre Learn more about Berea’s Music skill set, teaching them how to handle department. Daniel Boils, who graduat- Department at www.berea.edu/mus. themselves in an active, live-event ed this past December, helped write the setting.” music for “A Mid-summer Night’s Bentley and Clavere began collabo- Dream” and “Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” rating on how to bring their two two plays produced last spring and this

WINTER 2019 27 COURSE SPOTLIGHT: GSTR 110 Number of sections, Fall 2018: 29 Course Coordinator: Dr. Chris Green, Director, Loyal Jones Appalachian Center and Associate Professor of Appalachian Studies Course description: This course is designed to help students with transitions from their past experiences to the challenges of college academic life and culture, also emphasizing writing, reasoning and learning as foundations for continuing academic success in general education and beyond. Each section of the course involves explicit, continuing attention to writing, reasoning, research and reflective engagement with various texts, written and non-written. All sections initially address students about the nature of education, liberal arts education, and links to lifelong learning and living.

By Libby Jones (Ret.) Photos by Jennifer Lance ‘20

GSTR 110U, ON CERTAINTY Some key readings: Naguib Mahfouz, A teaching challenge: Structuring the class to Instructor: Dr. Troy Messina, Associate Miramar, a contemporary novel set in Alexandria, provide a broad array of ideologies, events and Professor of Egypt, where the same story is told from people. Physics different characters’ perspectives; Bamba Suso A surprise: At midterm, only one student had Course focus: and Banna Kanute, Sunjata, a 14th century missed a class (for a family illness), and no Helping students African epic about the creator of the Mali students were missing any assignments. navigate the empire; Vikram Seth, The Golden Gate, a What she loves about teaching the course: belief systems narrative set in San Francisco and written in How thirsty students are to learn. they’ve inherited sonnets. What she hopes students will take away from parents, A useful class activity: Exploring the from the course: Find role models for their teachers and relationship between son and father in Art own actions and gain the courage to speak their friends; finding Spiegelman’s Maus, a graphic novel about the truth—a minority voice is important. They may middle ground Holocaust, by sharing journal writing in small not win, but they can always resist. within today’s groups, with each group producing a visual political and cluster of ideas and examples from the novel. social polarization; and exploring debate as a A teaching challenge: Helping students GSTR 110T, EMERGING ADULTHOOD means of inquiry. understand the difference between opinion and Instructor: Dr. Dee Hill-Zuganelli, Assistant An assignment: Argue for a position you analysis. Professor of Child & don’t believe in (such as the belief that the A surprise: How capable and energetic the Family Studies earth is flat). students are, how ready they are to think. Course focus: A useful class activity: Modeling the process What she loves about teaching this Exploring the phase of reading deeply, through reading aloud, course: Applauding students’ small victories, of human develop- pausing, reflecting and posing questions. helping them build confidence in their ability to ment where A teaching challenge: Given diverse ages make a successful transition to college. individuals begin and backgrounds, finding common cultural What she hopes students will take away launching from their reference points—like Snapchat and texting. from the course: Your stories—and everyone’s families of origin, Some key readings: Alan Burdick, “Looking stories—matter. You need to read critically the seeking indepen- for Life on a Flat Earth,” New Yorker, May 30, stories you hear. dence and 2018; Jenna Wortham, “How I Learned to Love navigating challeng- Snapchat” and Michaela Cullington, “Does es to identity, experiencing and reflecting on Texting Affect Writing?” and Gerald Graff, Cathy GSTR 110W, STOCK AND CONCEALED uncertainty, freedom and self-discovery. Birkenstein, Russel Durst’s, They Say/I Say: The STORIES A key reading: Osgood, et. al (2017), Six Paths Moves that Matter in Academic Writing with Instructor: Dr. Bobby Starnes, Professor of to Adulthood, which identifies six different Readings (4th ed.). General Studies and Appalachian Studies models for ways emerging adults successfully What he loves about teaching the course: Course focus: Examining published historical launch themselves through their 20s (fast Interfacing with first-year students—helping accounts (stock stories) of Progressive Era events starters, parents with careers, educated partners, them acclimate to college life and find balance related to race, race violence, eugenics, labor and educated singles, working singles and slow among academics, labor, social life and sleep. immigration, and researching additional starters). What he hopes students will take away perspectives on events (concealed stories) to An assignment: Identify an important adult from the course: Writing—and whatever you understand better the complexities of history. role model in your life and explore the trajectory want to do well—is never finished; starting Key readings: American history texts plus that person experienced. early gives you time to come back to it and research on events such as the 1830 Indian A useful class activity: Discussing personal revise. Removal Act, the 1906 Atlanta race riots role models—learning becomes more substantive following the showing of the film,Birth of a when students hear raw, real-life experiences. Nation and the rise of the Black Panthers in the A surprise: Students’ attitude toward writing. GSTR 110M, THE STORIES WE TELL 1960s. Learning how to be a college-level writer is Instructor: Dr. Beth Crachiolo, Associate An assignment: Filling the gaps by creating a stressful. Students take constructive criticism Professor of English newspaper of five stories on issues the course rather well and really do want to learn to write Course focus: Exploring the human activity of addresses, reported from multiple perspectives. better. story-telling, understanding that there are Together, the class’s newspapers cover about A teaching challenge: Understanding and different ways to tell stories. 150 events; each student selects a topic to addressing the urgency felt by many internation- An important question: What purposes do explore in-depth in an essay. al students who don’t have the luxury of our stories serve?

28 WINTER 2019 exploring next steps—they have to go home to find a secure livelihood and/or start a family. What he loves about teaching this course: Asking students to develop a support network on campus and knowing they’ll leave the class having connected to people on whom they can rely for help. What he hopes students will take away from the course: Know that it’s okay to spend your 20s figuring out who you are and what you want to become. Who you think you are and what you want to become in the future may surprise you.

GSTR 110X, ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE: ARE WE PREPARED? Instructor: Dr. Lisa Turner, Associate Professor of Nursing Course focus: Through the frame of a zombie apocalypse, examining how infectious disease outbreaks, epidem- ics and pandemics occur; how public health officials respond; and what ethical issues arise in trying to prevent the spread of disease. A useful class activity: From the perspectives of the Center for Disease Control, the World Health Organization and officials in China, investigate the Hong Kong 2003 SARS epidemic, tracing its cause (a new coronavirus) and point source for pandemic spread (elevator button, 9th floor of Hong Kong hotel) and assessing local and global responses. An assignment: Examine a zombie-related issue, such as the origin of the idea of zombies or personal preparation for a zombie apocalypse. Some key readings: Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (also a film); Steven Schlozman, “Neurobiology of a Zombie,” Scott Mirabile, “The Psychology of Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse,” and Amy Thompson, ed., But If a Zombie Apocalypse Did Occur: Essays on Medical, Military, Governmental, Ethical, Economic, and Other Implications. What she loves about teaching the course: Being able to animate a serious and important issue—protection of the public’s health—through a light-hearted approach. A teaching challenge: Making sure content is diversified so students with different backgrounds in science will be able to find ways to engage. A surprise: The range of students’ responses to the topic of zombies. What she hopes students will take away from the course: How to think critically through a topic: identify reliable sources, assess evidence for claims, see multiple sides. B Better Connections New endowment encourages IT alumni to connect with students

By Jason Lee Miller

urrently, there are nine times as “ many jobs as people in information technology (IT),” said CDr. Jan Pearce, chair of Berea College’s Computer Science Department. It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that after just a decade of offering the major, computer science is one of the most sought-after degrees on campus. There are three issues, though, facing the College in terms of serving the growing number of computer science majors. One is funding. Another is keeping pace with a globally-competitive industry known to advance as quickly as processing power. A third is that economically-disadvantaged students tend to lack the professional networks more affluent students at pricier schools often have access to for Oluwatobi Adejumo Oluwatobi ’20 getting their foot in the door. A newly formed endowment aims to address all Computer and Information Science majors work together during the Second Annual Berea Hack Day. FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Ram Bastola ’19, Samriddha KC ’20, Basanta Phuyal ’20, and Ribana Phuyel ’21. three. Kevin Messer ’86, along with others, spearheaded the creation of the Com- Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates or Steve worked as a programmer, project manag- puter Science Alumni Advisory Fund, an Jobs are more distant and less relatable er and consultant to senior executives endowment that will assist comput- than alumni who went through experi- during his career. Higher education er-science students in networking with ences similar to today’s students not that institutions like Berea College have and learning from alumni working in long ago.” special challenges that can result in the IT sector. Students will be able to Messer also believes the process will unintended funding gaps. request funds for specific projects, allow students better opportunities to “Nevertheless, Berea College alumni certifications or educational goals from a keep pace with technological changes. are actively creating, implementing and panel of alumni, who will evaluate “Not only is IT ubiquitous, it’s managing technology changes in their requests, recommend which ones to changing at an increasingly faster pace,” careers,” Messer said. “The new endowed fund and advise the requestors. he said. “All over the world, individuals fund provides a structure for those IT “The purpose of the fund is to and organizations are trying to come up alumni to engage directly with the encourage greater interaction between with the next great innovation.” computer-science program about their alumni who work in the IT field and Keeping up with the rate of techno- experiences and to help with funding students,” Messer said, “because alumni logical change is difficult for all organi- gaps to meet the needs of students.” are always role models for students. zations, according to Messer, who has Messer and Dr. Pearce see this the

30 WINTER 2019 same way. “Our alumni are the best- athons,’ where they can connect with placed people to know what the world is employers.” like right now because they’re out there,” Funding for hackathon and confer- she said. “This fund is helping us with ence attendance is competitive. Current- one-on-one mentoring so our students ly, students can apply for scholarships or who want a mentor can get one.” request money from Berea’s career It also gives computer science development office. Students who are students a chance to hone their presenta- unable to obtain funds this way need to tion and persuasive communication self-fund, and that is difficult for many skills because receiving funding requires students. When Dr. Pearce and a group submitting a proposal to the alumni of computer science students recently panel. Students will submit written traveled to Orlando for a conference, she proposals and be encouraged also to and another faculty member rented an Fahim Baig ’18 Fahim submit video proposals. Airbnb with enough extra rooms so Bria Williams ’17 addresses students at the Computer The Computer Science Department students paying their own way had a Science Homecoming Alumni Panel on November 17, already invites alumni to serve on panels place to stay. 2018. Alumni seated beside her on the panel, FROM at Homecoming each year. Students ask Both the Alumni Advisory Endow- LEFT TO RIGHT: Michael Moorer ’18, Austin Farmer ’16, Rebeccah Hunter ’17, and Kenan Shelton ’16. alumni questions about how they got ment and conference attendance present their first jobs, what employers look for students with the chance to network, on résumés and which classes proved which Dr. Pearce and Messer agree is example. Each Berea alumnus has a most useful. In addition, IT alumni have vital for the cohort of students who network of contacts that they work with introduced new technologies to stu- attend Berea. professionally to whom they could refer dents, shared success stories and advised “Because Berea College students are a Berea College graduate.” them on issues challenging them in their economically disadvantaged, they Networking opportunities occur on careers. usually lack the kind of familial connec- campus as well, and the new endowment “This new fund will allow us to take tions that will often land a person his or can encourage more of it. Recently, that to the next level,” Dr. Pearce said. It her first job,” Dr. Pearce said. Rebeccah Hunter ’17, a software will also allow students to pitch for “An alumni referral was how I got developer for Nationwide, persuaded things like better equipment, software or my first job,” Messer said, “and my her employer to visit Berea College for funds to attend conferences and ‘hack- experience is such an easy-to-replicate a computer science recruiting event. “I was thrilled to have the opportunity to visit Berea and help students the same way other alumni had done for me,” Hunter said. “An endowment like this means more magic, more life-changing opportunities.” The success of the program, naturally, will depend on alumni involvement and support. “The hope,” Messer said, “is that alumni will see firsthand how they can benefit students through their time and experience. Over time, the model could be adopted by other academic areas.” B

To support the Computer Science Alumni Advisory Fund, visit www.berea.edu/csc. Oluwatobi Adejumo Oluwatobi ’20

Dostonbek Toirov ’21 displays the code he’s working on at the Second Annual Berea Hack Day in December. Toirov is working on a project that will translate code into Uzbek, the native language of Uzbekistan, because currently there are no Uzbek computer programming learning materials.

WINTER 2019 31 Taking it to the Next Level Berea graduate earns two-year internship through his student work experience

By Cora Allison ’22 and Abbie Tanyhill Darst ’03

When Kevin Kim ’18 first stepped onto Berea’s campus in fall 2014, he was not convinced Berea was the best fit for him. Having grown up outside of Atlanta, Ga., the small-town atmosphere of Berea was a culture shock. He originally had been recruited to play golf for Cornell University, but financing a Cornell education was out of reach for his family at the time. It was Cornell’s golf coach who recommended Berea to Kim. “I couldn’t settle in, I didn’t know anybody, and I had the mindset of that this wasn’t really the place for me,” Kim recalled about his first weeks at Berea College. And it wasn’t just the campus that didn’t seem to fit. He started off as a business major, and quickly realized it wasn’t his ‘cup of tea’ either, Kim said. “I started asking myself, ‘What’s going to keep my mind engaged?’ and I took a couple of philosophy courses and really enjoyed them,” he said. “So I decided to stick with it. I originally wanted to go into the law profession, and philosophy works hand-in-hand with that.” But even with a new major, Kim still struggled to settle into Berea. Between the

academic rigor, demanding schedule and Cora Allison ‘22 continued offers to play golf at other schools, Kim Kevin Kim ’18 is working in a two-year internship position with the College’s sports information office, funded said he often considered leaving Berea. But it was through an NCAA Division III Ethnic Minority and Women’s Internship grant. In his position, he manages his relationship with his golf coach, Trent Milby, Athletic Department website and social-media content. and the influence of his labor supervisor Shawn Jakubowski and associate athletic director Ryan Hess that ultimately convinced Kim to stay at “I applied and was brought to campus to project he’s involved with, along with his tireless Berea. interview,” Kim said. “I think having the student work ethic, have pushed our athletic programs “Berea gets tough, and I had a lot of labor position here really helped get my foot in out to the campus and community in new and tempting offers to leave Berea to go to another the door because I had previous experience in the engaging ways, which benefit both our depart- school,” Kim said. “These guys were mentors and field.” ment and, most importantly, our student really made me want to stay here as well as In this two-year position, Kim has taken athletes.” pursue a career as a coach or an athletic what he learned as a student to the next level. Ultimately, Kim plans to pair his philosophy administrator.” He writes sports articles, creates and manages and pre-law education with his sports information With their encouragement, Kim stayed Athletics website content and is expanding the training by pursuing a career as an athletic connected and soon excelled at Berea. He went department’s reach and engagement through director focusing on NCAA compliance laws and on to win the national championship in golf his dynamic social media content. regulations. junior year. He thrived in his labor position with “I want to show the personal side of Nearly five years after his uncertain start at sports information, where as a student manager, athletics; I want it to be more than, ‘This is the Berea, Kim has found his place at Berea and is he managed set up and tear down for various game, here’s what we did,’” Kim said. “I want to discovering new ways to enrich the Berea Seabury Center events. do interest pieces on student athletes, and experience for student athletes by promoting the Near the end of Kim’s senior year, the highlight the people behind the sport.” sports programs that help them find their niche Athletics Department applied for and received an “Kevin has been a tremendous asset to our and thrive on campus. NCAA Division III Ethnic Minority and Women’s department while serving in this position and we “The biggest thing Berea taught me as a Internship grant, which created a position for a are excited about all he’s accomplished since he person is I don’t have to sit and wait for coordinator of athletic events and sports began the internship in August,” Hess said. “The opportunity to fall in my lap,” Kim said, “I can information. ideas, creativity and perspective he brings to each go out and achieve whatever I want to.” B

32 WINTER 2019 Spring 2019 Berea College Athletic Schedules*

Women’s Softball FEBRUARY Wed. 20 Midway University 3 and 5 PM Sat. 23 at Johnson University Noon and 2 PM MARCH Sat. 2 Mary Baldwin 1 and 3 PM Sun. 3 Averett Noon and 2 PM Wed. 6 at Franklin College 2:30 and 4:30 PM Thu. 7 at Mount St. Joseph University 3:30 and 5:30 PM Sat. 9 Wesleyan (Ga.) 1 and 3 PM Tue. 12 at Brevard 2 and 4 PM Sat. 16 at Methodist 1 and 3 PM Wed. 20 at Covenant College 1 and 3 PM Sat. 23 Piedmont College 1 and 3 PM Tue. 26 Wilmington College 4 and 6 PM Wed. 27 Alice Lloyd College 4 and 6 PM Sat. 30 at Huntingdon 3 and 5 PM APRIL Mon. 1 at Asbury University 4 and 6 PM Thu. 4 at Spalding University 5:30 and 7:30 PM Sat. 6 Agnes Scott 1 and 3 PM Sun. 7 at Maryville College (Tenn.) 1 and 3 PM Thu. 11 at Alice Lloyd College 2 and 4 PM Sat. 13 LaGrange College Noon and 2 PM

Men’s Baseball Men’s Tennis FEBRUARY MARCH Fri. 8 at Huntingdon 5 PM Fri. 1 Piedmont College TBA Sat. 9 vs. Sewanee @ Montgomery, Ala. 1 PM Sat. 2 Covenant College 11 AM Sun. 10 vs. Guilford @ Huntingdon College 1 PM Sat. 9 at LaGrange College TBA Sat. 16 at Centre College Noon and 3 PM Sun. 10 at Huntingdon Noon Sun. 17 at Centre College 1 PM Sat. 16 Brevard 1 PM Sat. 23 at Mount St. Joseph University TBA Sat. 23 at Covenant College TBA MARCH Tue. 26 Maryville College (Tenn.) TBA Sat. 2 at LaGrange College 2 and 5 PM Sat. 30 at Piedmont College TBA Sun. 3 at LaGrange College 2 PM Sun. 31 at Brevard 1 PM Fri. 8 Methodist 4 PM APRIL Sat. 9 Methodist Noon and 3 PM Sat. 6 LaGrange College TBA Wed. 13 at Transylvania University 1 and 4 PM Sat. 13 at Maryville College (Tenn.) TBA Fri. 15 at Covenant College 3 PM Sat. 20 Huntingdon Noon Sat. 16 at Covenant College Noon and 3 PM at Earlham 3 PM Tue. 19 Asbury University 6 PM Fri. 22 Piedmont 6 PM Sat. 23 Piedmont 2 PM Sun. 24 Piedmont Noon Tue. 26 Centre College 6 PM Women’s Tennis Sat. 30 at Pfeiffer 1 and 4:30 PM MARCH Sun. 31 at Pfeiffer 1 PM Sat. 2 Covenant College 11 AM APRIL Sat. 16 Brevard 1 PM Tue. 2 Spalding University TBA Sat. 23 at Covenant College TBA Fri. 5 Greensboro 5 PM Sun. 24 Huntingdon 1 PM Sat. 6 Greensboro 3 and 6 PM Tue. 26 Maryville College (Tenn.) TBA Tue. 9 at Asbury University 6 PM Sat. 30 at Piedmont College TBA Fri. 12 Maryville College (Tenn.) TBA Sun. 31 at Brevard 1 PM Sat. 13 Maryville College (Tenn.) TBA APRIL Sun. 14 Maryville College (Tenn.) TBA Sat. 6 LaGrange College TBA Tue. 16 Alice Lloyd TBA Sat. 13 at Weslyan (Ga.) TBA Sat. 20 at Averett TBA at Maryville (Tenn.) TBA Sun. 21 at Averett TBA Sun. 14 at Agnes Scott TBA

*All schedules subject to change. Visit www.bereaathletics.com for the most up-to- date information and to view team rosters.

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Berea College Ranked among Nation’s Top Colleges Berea Names Gym After In September, INSIGHT into Diversity magazine The Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Dr. Joy Hager announced that Berea was one of 96 institu- Education named Berea a “best value institu- The upper gymnasium in Seabury Center was tions to receive its Higher Education Excellence tion,” and the Princeton Review placed Berea dedicated as the Dr. Joy Hager Gymnasium on in Diversity (HEED) Award. on its list of the Top Green Colleges for the Nov. 1, 2018, to memorialize her commitment Moreover, for the third consecutive year, school’s efforts in sustainability. It also placed and leadership during her 49 years of service Washington Monthly named Berea the No. 1 Berea among the top seven percent of the to Berea College. Hager was a professor of liberal arts college in the nation, and Kiplinger’s nation’s four-year colleges in Colleges That Pay physical education, chair of the Physical Personal Finance tapped the College for the top You Back: The 200 Schools That Give You the Education and Health Department and athletic spot on its list of colleges with the lowest Best Bang for Your Tuition Buck. director. She taught basketball, field hockey, average student debt at graduation. volleyball, tennis, swimming and golf, and she coached women’s basketball and field hockey during her tenure. She also was a leading defender of gender equality, working for Berea College Among the Top 25 B.A. Theater Programs women’s full participation in a broad range of for 2018-19 sports at all levels. Hager provided leadership in organizing women’s sports in Kentucky, serving OnStage Blog, a media site that covers theater prospective students and families. Berea came on boards and holding key offices in the state on an international level, ranked Berea in at No. 23, with a major highlight of its “First Women’s Intercollegiate Conference, putting College’s Theatre Department in the top 25 Theatre in Human Culture” course, which women’s sports on the path to prominence and Bachelor of Arts programs in America. Each studies the first theaters and extant play scripts success. She was recognized nationally with the year, OnStage Blog reviews theater programs of selected human cultures representing Africa, Pathfinders Award from the National Associa- across the country to provide a resource to the Americas, Asia and Europe. tion for Girls and Women in Sports, which honors a person from each state for being a strong, continuous advocate for the advancement of women’s athletics. A Joy Hager Scholarship also was created and will be awarded to a graduating female student majoring in physical education or a member of a sports team Hager coached.

Forest Stewardship Council Awards Full FSC Project Certification to Berea College Berea College received Full Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Project certification for its latest

Moriah Avery ‘21 construction project, the newly built Margaret A. Cargill Natural Sciences and Health building. FSC certification verifies that FSC-labeled $109 Million in Grants Awarded for New Berea College products come from a forest and supply chain managed in an environmentally, economically GEAR UP Programs to Assist Area Families and socially responsible way. Currently, there Partners for Education at Berea College has parents as partners. GEAR UP: SOAR will serve are a dozen FSC buildings or projects in the U.S. been awarded two Gaining Early Awareness Bell, Breathitt, Harlan, Perry, Knott, and Whitley Five of them are on Berea College’s campus. and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs counties, and GEAR UP: Opportunity will serve FSC certification—considered the gold (GEAR UP) grants worth a combined Clay, Estill, Garrard, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, Lee, standard in forest certification—sets standards $109,177,600 to serve students in Appalachian Leslie, Madison, Owsley, Powell, Pulaski, and for responsible forest management and uses its Kentucky. The U.S. Department of Education Rockcastle counties. power of the marketplace to protect forests for grants will provide 19,496 students in 19 future generations. Currently, more than 380 counties with an array of services aligned to million acres of forest are certified under FSC’s accomplish four overarching goals: lift educa- system, of which 150 million acres are in the tional aspirations, build academic skills, connect U.S. and Canada. academics to college and career, and engage

34 WINTER 2019 Mountaineers Run To 24th Place Finish at the NCAA DIII Historical Marker Unveiled National Championships at Middletown School Members of the Berea College Mountaineers Men’s Cross Country team traveled to Wisconsin The history of the Middletown Consolidated to compete in the NCAA Division III Cross County National Championship in November. The School in Berea was recognized with a mountaineers went into the meet ranked 30th in the NCAA DIII national poll and finished 24th ceremony unveiling the highway marker placed as a team with an average time of 25:59 for an 8K race. by the Kentucky Historical Society. The event The first Mountaineer to cross the finish line was Logan McKenzie in 53rd place with a time included representatives from state and local of 25:09. Next up was Tanner Carson in 61st place and a time of 25:20. Tyler Little was the third governments, officials from Berea College, Mountaineer to cross the line with a time of 26:14, securing 208th place. Close behind was Berea and Madison County School systems, and teammate Sair Salgado claiming 216th place with a time of 26:18. Rounding out the score was numerous Middletown School alumni, faculty Landon Bond getting 259th and a time of 26:48. and staff. The occasion marked the significance “This was a great way to end a fantastic season” said Cross Country Coach Shawn of the site as a Rosenwald school for African- Jakubowski. “This was a true cross-country race and Logan was our only runner with national American children during the segregation era. experience. They ran with everything they had. The season goal was to line up at the national As one of more than 100 Rosenwald schools meet and finish top 25 and they were able to get both goals.” built in Kentucky, this school—officially called the Berea Consolidated School for African American Children—is a local historical landmark. The Middletown consolidated school was built in 1927 for African-American children during segregation in the Berea area. A key factor in developing the school was the Julius Rosenwald Fund, named for the man who built Sears, Roebuck and Company and advanced the cause of Black education in the American South. The building now houses the College’s Partners for Education Program, which provides regional outreach services to lift educational aspirations, build academic skills and offer college and career connections for students, families and communities.

Berea Recognized 70 graduates during Mid-year Ceremony In December, Berea College’s Recognition Ceremony for Mid-Year Graduates celebrated 70 seniors who completed their degree requirements at the end of the fall term. Alexander Gibson ’08, executive director of Appalshop, Inc., served as guest speaker. Appalshop is a multi-media arts organization located in Whitesburg, Ky. Gibson joined Appalshop in 2015, where he uses the skills he acquired at Berea to grow communities’ awareness of their own strengths, and to expand Appalshop’s reach and programming. “With the support of our allies,” he wrote, “Appalshop engages place-based media, arts and education to document life, culture and voice the concerns of people in Appalachia.” Gibson graduated from Berea with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. He earned his Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2012. He also holds certificates in international comparative law and in Thai and Southeast Asian studies. At Berea College, he served as an ex-officio student representative to the Board of Trustees from 2004 to 2008 and received a Watson Fellowship to conduct a year-long study on identity development of multiracial Jennifer Lance ‘20 peoples in former European colonies in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and South America.

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DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS AWARD Jack Roush ’64: How It All Started

Interview by Jason Lee Miller

Born in Covington, Ky., Jack Roush is arguably because the farmers would go to town to the and we were on our way. We lived in the trailer Berea College’s most famous alumnus. A food locker to get their frozen meat and lot off campus at the bottom of the hill—I mathematics major turned mechanical engineer, vegetables each Saturday. That was the remember that the Phelps Stokes Chapel was Roush began his career at Ford Motor Company, tradition forever. And then home freezers came at the top. which led him to professional drag racing, his on the market as well. Now, you didn’t need to Ten days before finals, our daughter own parts and tuning business, and the world of go to town for freezer storage space. So the Susan was born in the Berea hospital. That was road racing in SCCA Trans-Am and IMSA GT food locker didn’t work out either. Next, he did my graduation present. competition—all before starting a NASCAR the wholesale meat and frozen vegetable By the time I graduated, I had already team in 1988. Eventually, he became the business, but then the entire country went into been working almost full time, after classes winningest team owner in NASCAR history. a recession after the conclusion of the Korean throughout the week, a full day on Saturday, Today, he is the chairman of Roush War. Nothing worked for my father’s business- and in the summers working full-time some- Enterprises, which employs more than 5,000 es, so we went back to the farm for a while. where else. people and operates more than 50 facilities It would have been very difficult for Berea helped me develop the across North America, Europe and Asia, and me to go to college without Berea. I would entrepreneurial spirit that my family had provides engineering, testing, and prototyping have had to borrow money. My family didn’t initiated. I advanced that spirit as much as I for the transportation, aerospace, defense and borrow money for things we could do without. could until I graduated. I was then able to get theme park industries. Roush will be inducted As I approached graduation, I had a school my first job at the Ford Motor Company as a into the NASCAR Hall of Fame later this year. superintendent named W.L. Davis who looked quality-control engineer. I also took a look at In his own words: I was mechanically into my financial situation and considered my junior college teaching before I started my own inclined as a youngster. I had a screwdriver motivations and my aptitudes. He thought I business. and would leave a debris field behind me, could pass the battery of tests Berea would Without Berea, I probably would have taking clocks and small motors apart before I offer. I had economic need. In 1960, I was wound up with an automotive junk yard or a was 6 years old. Anything I could take apart accepted as a freshman. Berea provided me an parts store or pursued a career in a car with my screwdriver was fair game. opportunity to get an education without taking dealership or a body repair shop. Instead, with When I was 9 or 10 years old, I used my on what I considered to be unacceptable debt. Berea as a launch pad, we have accomplished mechanical skills to keep old lawn mowers Berea was a great experience. It did so much more. running. My brother and I mowed as many as not have an engineering program. I majored in 20 small, half-acre to acre lots. I had to keep mathematics and minored in physics. I took as the engines running for that small enterprise. many elective courses in the Industrial Arts I built my first go-cart out of lawn department as I could. The instructors allowed mower and wagon parts when I was 11 years me to have a toolbox in the shop, and I was old. When I started driving at 16, I took able to use the shop to work on cars when it junkyard car bodies and components to create suited my purpose. powerful, serviceable vehicles so I could drive. I jumped into the Berea work My father came out of World War II program and did the required 10 hours determined to jump back into the farming initially in food service, helping supply the food community of Manchester, Ohio, where he was onto the food service lines in the cafeteria. I raised. He had three small businesses that also repaired bicycles and repaired cars that didn’t do well. belonged to Berea staff and the few students Near the family farm where he grew that were allowed to have cars. During my up, an ice and coal distribution business had senior year, I would trade cars to somebody done very well. So, he built an ice and coal who had a broken car. I’d fix it, then I’d trade distribution business of his own. But it was it, too. subsequently pushed aside by the manufactur- I married Della Pauline Correll (’63) ing and oil refining capacities, which came as a junior. We met at college. We were in a available at the conclusion of World War II, Thursday Chapel, and we found ourselves which soon brought refrigerators and sitting side by side. I took her to a downtown floor-mounted oil burning furnaces within reach movie. We walked down and had a hamburger

of consumers in that area. When that didn’t and milkshake at one of the little restaurants. Crystal Wylie ‘05 work out, he decided he’d do a food locker She invited me to be her Sadie Hawkins date, Jack and Della (Correll) Roush

36 WINTER 2019 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS AWARD Larry Allen ’78: When Lightning Struck

Interview by Abbie Tanyhill Darst ’03

Larry Allen spent three years as a potter’s apprentice and graduated from Berea College in 1978 with an art degree. He has worked as a professional potter for 35 years and owns his own studio, LA Pottery, in Alabama. Allen is a Guild member of the Southern Highlands in Asheville, N.C. and an Alabama Designer Craftsman. He has won numerous awards including Best in Show at many art shows, and his work is represented in several art galleries across the U.S. Allen and his wife, Linda Gassett Allen ’76, reside in Leeds, Ala. In his own words: I became interested in art in middle school. I always liked to draw. I remember looking at the Saturday Evening Post when Norman Rockwell’s illustrations were pretty big. I loved those everyday illustrations and how well he did them. They really excited me, and it was something I could see myself doing one day. In junior college, my studio art teacher was Mrs. Collinson—a petite, German lady who had a thick German accent. She was walking around the room telling students what she thought they should do as a career. When she came to me she said, ‘Larry you should become a potter.’ I said, ‘What? Come again?’ I

was thinking to myself, ‘There is no such thing Crystal Wylie ‘05 as a potter. She’s making this up.’ So, I quickly Larry and Linda (Gassett) Allen threw that idea out the window. Because I was a transfer student got my foot in the door. Then I asked about my designs started to move in those directions. when I came to Berea, they gave me the option how to get into the pottery program. Gary September 11, 2001 was significant of where I wanted to work. I chose the Art Gogerty (the resident potter) said, ‘You have to for me, design wise. I saw 9/11 as a unifying Department and imagined working with take my class, and if you successfully complete moment. I watched Tom Brokaw on the news professors and picking up tips and ideas. But it, then you’ll be enrolled as an apprentice.’ It showing blue-collar and white-collar workers— when I got there, it was sweeping and cleaning. was a thrill a minute after that. That’s what I people who would never come in contact on a That was not for me. I asked my supervisor for was meant to be. Plus all the camaraderie of given day—working for a common cause. Even another job. She said there was an opening in the apprentices working there—I loved it. Congress was out on the Capitol steps singing pottery. For me, the work helped the aca- ‘God Bless America’ and ‘We are the World.’ I I walked across the campus, and demics make sense. When you find yourself thought, ‘Now they get it; there is strength and before I got in door, one of the apprentices, on a track you want to go down, then the harmony in unity.’ So I decided I should etch it in Andy, was throwing a cider jar on the wheel. I academic side makes sense as to how this is stone because it won’t last. I designed a unity stopped in my tracks. I had never seen anyone going to help you get there. motif with people hand in hand linked around throw pottery on the wheel. I watched him When I first started my career, I was the vessel, and the vessel represented the world. throw that jar from a distance. By the time he just cranking out pieces. The more I made, the It is a motif I work into every piece I do. finished, lightning struck and I said, ‘I’m taking more I could sell. Design was a process. The It is a given that without Berea I that job. I don’t know what they want, but I’m crafts side of me just wanted to make nice would not be a potter. There is no question taking it.’ things, but the art side wanted to make a about that. There is nowhere else I could have They needed a gopher—someone to statement. I gradually started picking up on gone that would have taken me in that clean the studio and mix clay and glazes. So, I things I wanted to make a statement about, so direction.

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HONORARY ALUMNUS AWARD Silas House Hon. ’18: A Dream Deferred

Interview by Jason Lee Miller

differently than most kids. Often, when I’m out on the road, people assume that I had a bad education and the worst of schools because I’m from Kentucky. The opposite is true. I had wonderful teachers and a great community that encouraged me to be an artist. I was a rural mail carrier for about seven years. That was the best thing I could have done for myself as a writer. If I had become a high school English teacher, I think it would have taken over my life. Being a mail carrier was a really difficult job, but I was able to leave it when the mail day was over, and go home and write. I wrote my first book that way. When Clay’s Quilt became a New York Times best-seller, nobody was more surprised than me. I was able to quit carrying the mail then and devote myself to writing completely. I did that for about three years, but it involved being on the road so much that I felt like I was missing out on my children growing up. When I had the opportunity to apply to work at Berea, I was finally getting to fulfill a childhood dream. I really felt like I was able to serve my people and to work with

Crystal Wylie ‘05 students from my place in the world. But also I Silas House and Jason Howard get to introduce them to people from other places and have them work together in my Silas House is the New York Times bestselling this year’s honorary alumnus] was how I always classes. The most rewarding experiences are author of six novels, including his first,Clay’s wanted to go to Berea and didn’t get to. It’s a when you see the lightbulb going off in a Quilt (2001), and his most recent, Southernmost great honor, but it’s also a fulfillment of that student’s mind, when a student from the region (2018). He also has published a book of creative desire I had as a child. Berea was a dream will say to me they never knew their culture nonfiction and has had four of his plays school for me, but my mother went through had its own literature. They have a different produced. House is the recipient of many awards some health issues at the time that kept me pride once they realize that. I have students including the E.B. White Award, Appalachian from going away. My childhood best friend from the area whose minds are blown that a Book of the Year and Storylines Prize from the came to Berea, so I sort of lived vicariously masterpiece novel like River of Earth by James New York Public Library/NAV Foundation. He was through her. One thing I really liked about Still or The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow was long-listed for the 2019 prestigious Carnegie Berea was the idea of earning your college edu- written a county or two away from them. Medal for Excellence in Fiction. House is a former cation. Sometimes people will say, “Oh you My commitment to Berea deepens commentator for NPR’s “All Things Considered” know, if you’re poor you can go to Berea and when I see the College going out on a limb and and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern get a free education.” I always correct people standing up for equality and making a call for Writers. His work has been published in Time, and make sure they know the students are empathy, whether it’s about our commitment to Newsday, Garden and Gun, Oxford American earning their education. They’re not getting a teaching immigrant students or standing up for and The New York Times. House is a native of handout. the LGBT community. When the school sticks its eastern Kentucky. Besides serving as the Berea I was raised in southeastern neck out for social justice and civil rights, I’m College NEH Chair of Appalachian Studies, he Kentucky, had a great childhood and really always reminded why I’m glad to be a Berean. I also serves on the fiction faculty of the Spalding fine parents who encouraged me as a young would love to be a Berean as long as they’ll University MFA in Creative Writing. writer. I also had a seventh grade English teach- have me. In his own words: The first thing I er who was a tremendous influence. She thought when they told me [about being recognized that I thought about literature

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HOMECOMING 2018 Homecoming 2018 brought more alumni back to Berea than ever before. The campus community welcomed home nearly 1,000 alumni and guests with more than 60 receptions, performances and activities. Mark your calendars for Homecoming 2019, scheduled November 15-17. Crystal Wylie ‘05 Ray Davis ’11 Alumni and students connect during the sixth annual Great Conversations networking event, held each year on the Torell Carter ’21 dunks the ball on Eureka College Thursday before Homecoming weekend. Alumni Relations partnered with the Office of Internships and Career Devel- during the men’s basketball Homecoming game. The opment to provide students with a networking seminar, networking reception with alumni hosts, and an opportunity Mountaineers won 90-88. for a roundtable conversation with their chosen alumnus to discuss careers and life after Berea. Moriah Avery ’21 Jon Kemp ’19 Jon Kemp Nursing clinical skills coordinator, Janis Toliver, meets Adeline, daughter of nursing Berea College cheerleaders execute synchronized hurdlers during a time out at the men’s alumna Olivia Wackerly Davidson ’18, during the Department of Nursing Alumni Homecoming game. Welcome Back Reception. Crystal Wylie ‘05 Crystal Wylie ‘05 Calvin Campbell ‘77 directs the BME Alumni Choir during the annual Black Music Ben Christson ’19 and Maya Riddles ’20 are all smiles as they walk off the court after Ensemble Homecoming concert. being named Homecoming 2018 king and queen.

40 WINTER 2019 Jennifer Lance ’20 Adejumo ‘20 Tobi

Classmates Daryll Sullivan ’18 and Kendal Keaton Fletch- Guerds Jean ’18 (center) volunteers to speak on the African Student Association’s 5th Annual Diaspora Networking er ’18 reunite at BereaFEST before their class photo. and Career Panel along with other ASA alumni. Crystal Wylie ‘05 Crystal Wylie ‘05

Pictured leaning in for a selfieFROM LEFT: Mary Trumbo Jackson ‘04, Charles Badger D.J. Jaydn Sol (Jordan Tre’ Sims ’15) kept our alumni and students dancing through ’11, Christian Motley ’09, Debra Bulluck ’09 and Mary Rush Galloway ’07. the night while enjoying food from local eateries, kettle corn and plenty of Ale-8-One at the annual Block Party on the Square. Jon Kemp ’19 Jon Kemp Jon Kemp ’19 Jon Kemp Dr. Stephen Bolster, Hon. ‘12, turns and smiles at the audience while directing the Berea College forester Glen Dandeneau ’87 waits for Ag students to cook a custom Alumni Chapel and Concert Choir during its annual concert. Choir alums came back in omelet during the annual Agriculture and Natural Resources Homecoming break- record numbers to sing one last song with Bolster, who will retire in May after nearly fast. 40 years of teaching at Berea.

WINTER 2019 41 ALUMNI CONNECTIONS Moriah Avery ’21

FRONT ROW, L-R: Monica Kelty, Wendy Nichols Rutherford, Adam Howard, Wayne Bolen SECOND ROW, L-R: Jimmy Dodson, Chandrel Wright-Richardson, Amy Bick, Jaunita Harless Metton and Gerald Hogan. Moriah Avery ’21

FRONT ROW, L-R: Chris Schatzle, Nicole Masica Montgomery, Heather White Garland, Becky Herzog Bacovin , Jeanette Campbell, Bonnie Bush Underwood, Jalene Gore; SECOND ROW, L-R: Holly Stevenson Hartman, Nathan Hartman, Daniel Montano Smith, Maggie Freeman, Carlesia Manning, Lawranda Hurst Hash; THIRD ROW, L-R: Ron Perkinson, Olivia Avery, Angela Hale Allen, Heidi Gilmore Stewart, Kami Brown Corcoran; FOURTH ROW, L-R: Larry Jones, Sam Perry, Robin Beck Smith, Marvis Strickland , Chris Lakes, Prax Shahi; FIFTH ROW, L-R: Trina Unrue Randall, Angela Michelle Collard, Julius O. Stokely, E. Dustin Owens and Garry Norfleet.

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FRONT ROW, L-R: Cynethia Bethel-Jaiteh, Casey Dansby-Sparks, Abbie Tanyhill Darst, Katy Jones Sulfridge, Jessica Edwards Bohannon, Faith Calhoun-Louden, Justin Nichols, Munyaradzi Masawi ; SECOND ROW, L-R: Lucian Musgrove, Misty Calhoun Hartzog, Luke Sulfridge, Katie McGrath Lee, George L. Hill Jr., Rashaad Abdur-Rahman; THIRD ROW, L-R: Bryan Hartzog, Cathy Weaver, Joshua McMinn; FOURTH ROW, L-R: Hazel Branham, Todd Caudill, Tiffanie Devarso, Kristy Bearden Gonzalez, Naomi Hudson; Miranda Gibson Beam; FIFTH ROW, L-R: Brenda Parsons Overstreet, Rhonda Burkholder Borntrager, Jennifer Engelby Goodpaster, Steven Goodpaster, Joseph Walsh and Shammar McClendon. Moriah Avery ’21

FRONT ROW, L-R: Rei Sterling, Kimberly Mullan McPherson, Lenny Souleret, Veronica Bibiano-Raschke, Danni Whitehouse, Virginia Triplett Goddard, Lolly Ladd Saleem, Kimberly Hutchins; SECOND ROW, L-R: Dee Gram, Tamara Walker, Geri Guy Kinlaw, Beatrice Stallings, Monica Johnson, Maegen Martin, Grace Todd McKenzie; THIRD ROW, L-R: Amanda Keeton, Danielle McIntyre, Gloria Talbert Alexander, Rosanna Green Ballinger, Rachel Oliver Ottman, Maggie Park, Stephany Whitaker, Chris McKenzie; FOURTH ROW, L-R: Jamie Helle, Lindsey Hagedorn, Kimberly Daniels Kyker, Rachel Trost Medina, Danielle King, Kaydene Jones-Tyson; FIFTH ROW, L-R: Ry Baker, Suzanne Ritter, Sarah S. Broomfield, Adam Gilpin, Sarah Leak Garver, Amanda Ingold, Ruth Blyden-Ollivant; SIXTH ROW, L-R: JJ Wallace, Britney Crane Swann, Adam Kirby, Jimmy Rittman, Mikita Weaver; SEVENTH ROW, L-R: Clint Pinion, Matthew Wickert, Alan Connor, Micah Smith, Paul McPherson and Joe Saleem.

WINTER 2019 43 ALUMNI CONNECTIONS Moriah Avery ’21 FRONT ROW, L-R: Kelly Korb, Te’Aira Stokes, Britney Smith, La’Tierra Randle, Lara Zavalza-Neeson; SECOND ROW, L-R: Carol Brobeck, Tiffany Lindsey Camp, Houda Moutki, Faith Bailey, Erica Cook, Carmen Edgerton; THIRD ROW, L-R: Gabrielle Blassingame, Amanda Luff, Jeanette Gingerich McNair, Sarah Kozel; FOURTH ROW, L-R: Steve Homer, Joshua Best, Stella Welsh Miller, Paige Mackey Boling, Mia Henderson-Bonilla; FIFTH ROW, L-R: Michael A. Thomas, Katie Bills, Nathan Ogle and Collis Robinson. Moriah Avery ’21

FRONT ROW, L-R: Marion M. Moon Galloway, Kendal Keaton Fletcher, Nestor Aviles, Cynthia Macias, Amber Mosley, Augusta Enns; SECOND ROW, L-R: Lauren Heller, Caitlin N. Taulbee, Khawla Nasser Al Deen, Gabriella Valentine, THIRD ROW, L-R: Elizabeth Heller, Daryl Lanier Sullivan, Micah Egana, Gabriella Bugge, Tamia Ware; FOURTH ROW, L-R: Jer- ry Galloway, Jessen Soto Ventura, Ron Young, Elle Keys, Kelley Farley; FIFTH ROW, L-R: Minashsha Lamisa, Olivia Slater, Jacob Mondine, Zachary Raab, Matthew Schwartz; SIXTH ROW, L-R: Osvaldo Flores, Ethridge Delk, James McCarthey and Eli Manning.

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CLASS NOTES

The Berea College Alumni Association 1956 1960 enjoys hearing from Bereans from all John W. Leeson celebrated his 85th birthday on Angie Campbell Spell is retired and has three over the world. The “Class Notes” July 14, 2018. John came to Berea in January of children, five grandchildren and two great section of Berea College magazine 1953. He transferred from Guilford College after grandchildren. learning of Berea College from William H. reports verifiable news you wish to share Danforth and with his recommendation. John Sandy Conover Branam organized an art sale with your alumni friends and associates: majored in English, graduated with a M.A. from by Savannah artists to benefit Puerto Rico after careers, weddings, retirements, births, the University of Kentucky with additional studies Hurricane Maria, a Category 4 storm, devastated and other items of importance to our at California State University at Long Beach and the island in September 2017. The art sale, alumni. Please include your class year McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He conducted in December 2017, raised more than and name used while attending Berea. taught college-level English in Kentucky and Ohio $10,000. Notes may be edited for style and for 37 years. length. While we will make every effort to put your information into the next 1961 issue of BCM, some delays may occur. 1958 Flem Messer attended the Berea College We appreciate your understanding. Wallace Baird and Frances Gabbard Baird Foundation School from 1953-1957 and recently were unable to attend their 60th reunion on published his autobiography, An Appalachian campus this summer but wanted to give their Boy’s Life, available from Amazon, Berea College Submit class notes and photographs classmates an update. They live on a tree farm, Visitor Center and Joseph-Beth Booksellers at via email: [email protected] or and Wallace has been busy saw milling and Lexington Green. In recounting his life and at www.berea.edu/alumni/classnote making molding and flooring. Frances made him experiences, Flem describes Appalachia based on retire in the spring, he said, but he still works as family and community—very different from the much as his back allows. Frances is busy with distorted stereotypes found in other books about 1948 the house, helping with TreeHugger Forestry the region. He also was featured in the June 2018 Harry W Kilbourne said there was sparse (www.treehuggerforestry.com), making article “Messer attendance from the “old folks” at Summer jewelry, reading and “taking good care of” shares his story of Reunion 2018, with only he and Dottie Davis Wallace. Both retired in their 50s after careers in growing up, working Blackburn in attendance from the class of ’48. education and medicine. Frances taught at to address poverty” “It was a rather lonely experience,” he said. Bowman Gray School of Medicine (now Wake published in The [Editor’s note: Summer Reunion 2019 is June Forest School of Medicine) and worked as a Advocate-Messen- 14-16, celebrating the special reunion classes of pathologist. Wallace earned a Ph.D. in physical ger (Danville, KY). ’44, ’49, ’54, ’59, ’64, ’69, ’74, ’79, ’84 and ’89!] chemistry in 1963 from the University of Read the full story Wisconsin-Madison and taught at Wake Forest here: http://ow.ly/ University. The Bairds also are enjoying their M4Pn30mv8KB. 1953 2-year-old great grandson, Solomon Wallace Flem is retired and Rosemary Maxie Weddington and Jessie Christopher Easterday, the son of their only now lives in Danville, Reasor Zander ’54 spent some time together grandchild, Heather Moser. KY. Learn more at Rosemary’s home in Frankfort, KY while Jessie about the book at was in the area for the Foundation, Knapp Hall Betty L. Buchanan Sundermeier says she www.flemmesser. and Academy Reunion at Berea College in loved going to Berea. Betty taught school for 31 com. October. They reminisced about their time in years in Michigan and Fresno, CA. Anna Smith Hall where they lived across from each other. They spoke about their trip to Mexico, Barbara Hyder Fenton said, “Thank you for the 1963 which was organized by the Alumni Relations sweet potato and pecan pie recipe. My daughter Ruth H. Wilson is retired and living with her office years ago. Jessie now resides in Tucson, AZ, made it and it was delicious!” [Editor’s note: Get daughter, Rebecca J. Wilson. She recently and visited campus with her goddaughter, Dr. the recipe from the Berea College Farm Store: celebrated her 99th birthday at the home of E. Comel Belin. www.berea.edu/give/angel]. Gail Wilson Chandler ‘64, along with Ruth’s daughter and T. Sammie Wilson Wakefield ‘65. 1959 Mary Elizabeth “Beth” Powell and her 1965 husband, Peter Griffin, are both retired from Dr. John E. Fleming was elected the national college teaching. Beth gets a few letters and chair of the American Association for State and op-eds published, and Peter facilitates history Local History at its annual meeting in Kansas City, classes at Lifelong Learning, Washington MO, in September 2018. He was elected AASLH University. They put up with two dogs and vice president in 2016. John currently is director of occasionally ask themselves “why?” Each of their the National Museum of African American Music children, Paul and Amy, has a daughter. in Nashville, TN, scheduled to open in 2020. He also serves on the Berea College Board of Trustees. Georgia Bishop Rachelson became a great Read more: http://ow.ly/4oxx30mwk43. grandma on Dec. 12, 2017 to Grayson James Peter.

John “Kenny” Gwinn is looking forward to his Harold Branam attended the Friends Committee 65th Reunion in 2019. John is still traveling, on National Legislation annual meeting in cruising and watching his grandson play high Washington, D.C., in November 2017, and lobbied school football. Georgia’s members of Congress.

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Wayne E. Hambright’s oldest great grandson, about the net benefits 1973 Andrew Wayne Poole, graduated with honors this or costs of economic Sharon Wesley Edwards works as a nurse year from Western Hills High School in Frankfort, activity or the impact practitioner in Richmond, VA. KY. of economic growth on ecosystems. The book is available at 1976 Amazon.com, Fred N. Lane and Ann Meier Lane’s son was barnesandnoble.com appointed by Governor Ralph Northam as the and booksamillion. superintendent of Public Education for the State com. of Virginia. Ann and Fred still reside in Cary, NC.

Marshia Gologlu Hawkins was featured in 1968 an August 2018 article, “What’s Happening at Tom R. Watts said, “My wife and I thoroughly the Library: New pottery exhibit on display” enjoyed the entire reunion (Summer Reunion published by The Winchester Sun (Clark County, 2018), especially meeting with friends. The food KY). The article chronicles her career in pottery and hospitality were great.” and art education since graduating from Berea College with an art degree. Marshia recently Diann Lovett Duvall is retired and living in retired as an art teacher at Montgomery County Anna Barger Matthews resides in Dallas, TX. Winchester, VA. Intermediate School in Mount Sterling and now Anna said she would love to hear from any devotes her time to sculpting and creating alumni who are passing through the area. personalized gifts from nature. Read more: Contact her at [email protected] 1969 http://ow.ly/HIRd30mwiuw. or (214) 797-3973. Joyce F. Hamberg is now fully retired, for the third time, and appreciates a more flexible Bill Clement and Rhoda Marcum Clement ’77 Jane Matney Powell was honored for her schedule where she is able to enjoy time with enjoyed the Chilhuly glass art exhibit at one of dedication to teaching and community service at family, friends, traveling, church and community America’s castles, The Biltmore, in Asheville, NC. her high school’s annual alumni banquet on service. August 31, 2018. In March, she joined other Berea alumni, students and faculty in response to a call from Dr. Martin Luther King III., in a historic 1970 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, AL. Rebecca Hollen Lewis is CEO/president of Widowed since 2017, Jane works on her family Grandview Medical Center in Dayton, OH (part genealogy, crochets and enjoys time spent with of the Kettering Health Network). She can be her five children and two grandchildren. Read contacted at [email protected]. more: http://ow.ly/LSFt30muBI5. 1971 Gail Shepherd Diederich published her fifth book, Take Care of Violet, a narrative based on a real-life experience between her and her sister, Ann Shepherd Shoemaker ‘69, sharing three generations of African Violets over a 25-year span. Watercolor artist Meaghan Wolf contributed to the story with her soft, subtle illustrations. For more information about this book and Gail’s other 1977 books, go to www.gailsdiederich.com. Gail lives in Sumit Ganguly was made distinguished Odessa, FL with her husband Jay. They enjoy a professor this year at Indiana University, Bloom- family of five children, their spouses and nine ington. He also received the Alexander Von grandchildren. Gail may also be reached at Humboldt Research Fellowship from Germany, [email protected]. which promotes international academic coopera- tion between scientists and scholars from Courtesy of BereaOnline Germany and abroad.

Carol Bryant wanted to grant her best wishes to 1966 old friends who shared the “Berea Experience” Russ England recently wrote a book entitled, with her. Gross Deceptive Product: An Ecological Perspec- tive on the Economy. The book challenges conventional wisdom that implies continuous economic growth is the solution to all problems. Economic growth depends on population growth, depletion of finite resources, growing monetary debt and land use conversion, none of which are sustainable over the long term. Measuring economic health in gross terms (Gross Domestic Product) is deceptive because it says nothing

48 WINTER 2019 1978 1981 1984 Bitsy Carico retired on July 1, 2018. She was a MARRIED: Stephanie Prosser and Tavaris Guider Kimberly Robbins started a new position as school guidance counselor for 38 years. Bitsy said married on June 9, 2018. Stephanie Prosser is the facilities manager of the Flaget Retreat Center of although she loved helping her students daughter of Laura Moore Prosser and Ronald the Archdiocese of Louisville. The Flaget Center is throughout her career, retirement is great. Prosser ’81. a conference and retreat center in Louisville, KY, with conference rooms that can accommodate Theodore “Bob” Deppe is alive and well and multiple groups of up to 300 people at a time. living happily, in spite of the recent announce- Overnight accommodations are also available for ment of his death in the Passages section of the up to 10 people. She can be contacted at Summer 2018 Berea College magazine. Thanks to [email protected] a great education at Berea, said Bob, he worked as an RN for 20 years, before switching to writing Alonzo Lonnie Allen retired from Toyota Motor and teaching. He is the author of six books of Manufacturing in Georgetown, KY. He now works poetry (he publishes under his first name, at the University of Kentucky Lean Systems Theodore) and former nursing classmates can find Program, which is a systematic approach to the some of his hospital-related work in four identification and elimination of waste and anthologies: Between the Heartbeats, Intensive non-value added activities through employee Care, The Poetry of Nursing, and Learning to Heal: development and continuous improvement in all Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose. products and services. Alonzo teaches lean He teaches for the Stonecoast Master of Fine Arts manufacturing on UK’s campus, working on-site program and he and his wife, Annie Deppe with clients along their lean journey. (author of two books of poetry), direct the Irish residencies for Stonecoast. Since 2000, Bob and Annie have lived for the most part on the west 1983 1985 coast of Ireland. They have three children, Caitlin, Brent Holsclaw Scot Musser and those of LIFE International Peter and Michael; and two grandchildren, Alanna was featured in the enjoyed having Berea student Bethanie and Emrys. July 2018 article, Williams ’19 serve with LIFE International “HCS to celebrate School, an English immersion preschool and five distinguished primary school in Tres Cantos, Spain, in May and alumni,” published June 2018. in The New-Enter- prise (Hardin County, KY). He was honored by the Distinguished The News-Enterprise The Alumnus program of Hardin County Schools, which recognizes Courtesy of graduates of current or former high schools in HCS who have made a valuable contribution to their chosen profession or to their community, state, region or country. Brent is a superintendent of Bardstown Independent Schools and began a new career as Grace Griffith-Hackney is the executive and chief financial and facilities officer at Elizabeth- founding director of Life Around the Table, a town Community and Technical College. He nonprofit extension ministry of the United currently is a board member at the Guthrie Methodist Church. Rev. Hackney lives in Efland, Opportunity Center, an organization working to 1988 NC, with her husband Tony Hackney ’79. improve the quality of life for adults with Beverly Lakes Kass graduated from William disabilities. Read more at: http://ow.ly/ Paterson University, NJ, with a Doctor of Nursing Peter Li was honored for his outstanding LRu230mv8fb. Practice degree in January 2018. Beverly is the contributions to West Virginia University with the daughter of Mrs. Eva Lakes and the late Roy Lakes 2018 Hall of Fame and Outstanding Achievement Dora Kay Thomas, MSN, RN, was welcomed of Richmond, KY. She graduated from Madison Award by the Division of Student Life in October into the International Nurses Association and will Central High School in 1983, Berea College with a 2018. Peter serves as the director of the universi- be published in Worldwide Leaders in Healthcare, Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1988, and the ty’s international office. Read more at which is printed annually and represents more University of Connecticut with a Master of Science http://ow.ly/s34X30muKvl. than 100 medical specialties across the globe. in Nursing in 1999. Dr. Kass is a clinical professor Dora is a nurse educator and a professor at at Seton Hall University in the undergraduate Katherine Heckman is now the executive Elizabethtown Community and Technical College nursing department and a member of Sigma Theta director of Berea Home Village after 28 years as in Elizabethtown, KY. She has more than three Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. community relations director at Berea Hospital. decades of experience in her field and attributes This new not-for-profit provides volunteer service her success to her education at Berea College. to Berea seniors to help them remain in their Read more at: http://ow.ly/laK030mvaba. homes independently.

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1989 Justice, a story of greed and corruption in the Institute of Management Accountants. In the Jeanette Humphrey Byrd is entering her West Virginia courts. The author distorts several article, Ginger speaks of her childhood, how she seventh year as principal at Cummings Elementary facts about her history and her role in a pivotal got started in accounting, her time at Berea in Alief Independent School District in Houston, court case, Tonya said, “But all in all it is a very College and her continued education while TX. She and her husband, Alex, celebrated 28 good read which captures this Berea grad’s spirit moving up the ranks at Cummins, an Indi- years of marriage in August. Their son, Benjamin, and willingness to take on a Goliath in order to ana-based company that designs, manufactures, attends Oberlin Conservatory and College in obtain justice for the disenfranchised.” sells and services diesel and alternative fuel Oberlin, OH. Their daughter, Jenna, started high engines, related components and technology. school in the fall. Greg Lakes was Ginger also serves as chair of IMA’s Global Board appointed to the of Directors for the 2018-19 fiscal year. Read Donna L. Mowell Daniels recently returned to Kentucky Board of more at http://ow.ly/MwDK30muLbn. Berea College to serve as director of Brushy Fork Embalmers and Institute, a leadership and community develop- Funeral Directors in Vivian Warren Overall retired in 2013 after ment outreach program under the Division of June 2018. This serving 15 years as a human resources coordina- Strategic Initiatives. Donna is looking forward to organization adopts tor with Shelby County Public Schools (KY). working in partnership with Appalachian leaders and enforces and communities. regulations across all funeral homes 1998 throughout the Lawranda Shavette Hash enjoyed reconnect- state. Greg will ing with classmates at Homecoming 2018. This serve a four-year year was their 20th reunion. term. He is a 1993 graduate of the Mid-America College of Mortuary Larry Samuel Jones and his wife, Jenny Hopfe Science and has been an active funeral director Jones ‘95, accepted positions with Knox County and embalmer in Madison County since that time. (TN) Schools. Larry is teaching special education at Along with his sisters, he has co-owned Lakes Karns High School and Jenny is teaching science at Funeral Home in Berea since 2002 and comprises South Doyle Middle School. They live in Knoxville the third generation of Lakes family involved in with four of their five children. Larry and Jenny’s funeral service. Greg and his wife, Rachel Roberts oldest son and his wife are first-year students at Lakes ’92, have two children, Mallory and the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. MacGregor.

1992 Dana Murray Patterson is the director of 1990 Intercultural Affairs at Western Carolina Universi- Dr. Lisa L. Ellison ty. Through educational, social and leadership and her sons Liam, programs, ICA promotes inclusive values of social 8, and Matthew, 18, justice and human dignity, while preparing live in Morgantown, students to thrive in a diverse and interconnected WV. She is a world. professional tutor, substitute teacher, published research- 1994 er and entrepreneur. Christina Saylor Lisa’s daughter, accepted a position Anastasia, was as an accountant married in October; with Central her daughter, Kentucky Ag Credit Angela Collard became a professional home Brigitte, is finishing college at Glenville State; and and will be working caregiver in April 2017, for Tender Touch Senior her daughter, Tish, lives in Cleveland. in the administra- Services in Elizabethtown, KY. tive office in Lexington. After Matthew Perkins Coppola, Ph.D., is an 1991 earning a business assistant professor of science education at Purdue Tonya Mounts administration University, Fort Wayne. In 2017, Matthew was Hatfield’s history degree with a named part of the inaugural class of PhysTEC as a coal miner’s concentration in Fellows, which is a partnership between the daughter and her accounting from American Physical Society and the American work as a Berea, she earned a master’s degree in Business Association of Physics Teachers, for his collabora- hard-fighting Administration from Eastern Kentucky University. tive work with the physics department to attorney seeking implement a Learning Assistant program and to justice on behalf of identify and prepare more students to become families of deceased 1996 high school physics teachers. His wife, Rev. coal miners is Ginger Riley White, CMA, CSCA, was profiled Christina Ryan Perkins ’98, celebrated her featured in in “Ginger White: Encouragement is Key,” an one-year anniversary as pastor of Salem United Laurence Leamer’s article by Lori Parks in the August 2018 edition of Church of Christ in Fort Wayne. They have two book, The Price of Strategic Finance Magazine, a publication of the children, Bethany and Simeon.

50 WINTER 2019 Sarah Striklen 2003 2004 Schilens is currently MARRIED: Tiffanie DeVarso to William Griffin BIRTH: twin sons to Lynn M. Patterson Klett teaching beginning in Danforth Chapel by Rev. Kent Gilbert on June 2, and her husband Nick on March 21, 2018. The Spanish to home- 2018. The couple had a wonderful reception at family resides in Greensboro, NC, where Lynn schoolers through Boone Tavern after the ceremony. The family lives works as a pediatric nurse practitioner. their co-op Growing in Pendleton, SC. Great Minds in New Port Richey, FL. Travelling with Berea College to Mexico for Short Term inspired her to continue Spanish studies and share her love of languages. Sarah took another short-term course, Constraints of the Blind, which encouraged her to learn more about Braille and ASL, both of which, along with Spanish, she is teaching to her two daughters.

1999 Gul Maqsood Sabit submitted this photo of his son, Farhaan Sabit, and his classmates with their 8th grade presentation on Berea College. The students shared information with parents and the community about Berea. Jason Hart was featured in the Aug. 7, 2018 article “Volun- teer Spirit: Nonprofit recruited Hart BIRTH: a son, Waylon George Freeman, to to volunteer Christopher S. Freeman and his wife Katy following Fuller on Feb. 14, 2017. The couple married on crock-pot Courtesy of The State Journal The Courtesy of June 4, 2016. Christopher is a portfolio specialist donation,” with Tulane University’s Office of Advancement. in The State The family currently resides in New Orleans, LA. Journal newspaper (Frankfort, KY). The article tells the story of how he eventually became the president of the combined board of the Sunshine Center and Family Abuse Services, Inc. after donating a crockpot to the center and receiving a 2000 thank you note with a call to service. Jason also is Ferdous Hossain lives in San Diego, CA. He is owner of Apollo Law in Frankfort, president of the the president of an executive search firm for the Young Democrats, a member of Capital Pride, and pharma/biotech world, placing C-level people is involved in the revitalization of Capital Lodge 6 globally. of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Jason is a graduate of the David. A Clark School of Law in Washington D.C., and has spent much of his 2001 career as a public defender and in criminal law. Shawn Adkins is He and his wife Elizabeth Anderson-Hoagland working on an Educa- Hart have a daughter, Claire, who is in kindergar- tion Specialist degree in ten. To learn more about Jason and his work: Educational Leadership http://ow.ly/p0Sz30muLDG. from Fort Hays University and is slated to graduate LaShaundra Marie Thedford-Smith is excited in May 2019. He to represent the Class of 2003 and is honored to 2005 currently resides in be a Carl Thomas ’78 recruit. [Editor’s note: Carl Jamaco Dakota Cincinnati, OH, with his served as associate director of Berea College Grady is excited to spouse, Brent. They were Admissions, where he worked for nearly 40 years announce his new married January 7, 2017. before retiring June 2018.] book, Financial Hope: Shawn is an Educational Principles of a Specialist in the College Prosperous Financial of Medicine at University of Cincinnati. Future, now available at www.dakotagrady. com. CLASS NOTES

2008 Rachel Saunders is a physician in Lexington, KY. Aaron Saderholm visited Berea on July 10, MARRIED: Maggie Catherine Park to Alan Rachel recently got married and is enjoying 2018 to give a presentation to computer science Russell Connor on Sept. 29, 2018, at Union married life. students on his cybersecurity work at Two Sigma, Church, Cowan Chapel, officiated by Rev. Kent a Department of Defense contractor. Gilbert. 2009 Jesse Wilhite recorded “Gondolele: Buoyant Ukulele Music!”—a deluxe CD with 15 songs, nearly one hour of music and 15 panels of artwork and song lyrics. Hear a sample and learn more here: http://ow.ly/weMr30muFqF.

2012 Sarah Kincaid McLewin was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, a U.S. student exchange program that offers research, study and teaching opportunities to recent graduate students and graduate students. Sarah will be teaching English at a university in Morocco for 10 months. 2015 Sarah Carr graduated from West Virginia MARRIED: Laura Howard to David Bellnier at University with a master’s degree in animal Union Church on July 28, 2018. Laura and David physiology. Sarah also is a Ph.D. student at the Kirsten Rogers Chapman and Sirajah first met in front of Lincoln Hall on their first day University of Kentucky, studying animal and food Raheem “wander far away” together to Paris on of freshman year at Berea College in 2008. The science. a joint family vacation, seeing numerous historical couple is grateful for Berea bringing them sites including the Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral, together and loved celebrating their wedding day (pictured). in Berea. 2016 Megan Zech was hired as assistant director for the Career and Leadership Development Center for the College of Health Sciences and Professions at Ohio University in Athens, OH.

2018 Mayra Macias said that although she just graduated in May, she’s been homesick. She’ll be glad to be back in Berea, even if it’s just for Homecoming weekend.

2013 Carol Brobeck graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2018 with a master’s degree in urban planning. She began work with Teska Associates in Evanston, IL as a bilingual associate planner in June of 2018.

Jessica Scruggs has been running her own business, Cowee Cowgirl Large Animal Mobile Veterinary Service, in her hometown of Franklin, NC, since 2014. She earned a master’s degree in animal science in 2010 and a doctorate of veterinary medicine in 2014, both from North Carolina State University.

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Staff & Faculty Harriett J. Parker Lenore Harris Browitt ’54 Darlene Van Winkle Wife of Dr. Blaine F. Parker ’46 Obituary Unavailable Berea College Laundry (1964-2004) June 7, 2018 July 19, 2018 Jean Case Dixon ’54 Dorothy Baldwin Edwards ’47 Jan. 6, 2018 Katherine Christensen July 16, 2018 Associate Professor of History (1991-2017) Garry E. Irwin Fd ’54 Aug. 19, 2018 Annis Dodd Nelson ’47 Apr. 18, 2018 May 14, 2018 Nobuko Toda Patton Betty Jo Wiblin Warthen ’54 Instructor in Japanese (2009-2012) LaWanda Curtis Baskette ’47 May 21, 2018 Aug. 18, 2018 Aug. 12, 2018 Leona Dobbins Hutchins ’54 Ruth Oakes Butwell Harold R. Adams ’48 June 4, 2018 Dean of Student Life (1971-1995) June 8, 2018 Dec. 10, 2018 Nancy Biddix McKinnis ’54 Clara Scott Mieres ’48 June 14, 2018 May 5, 2018 1930s Panzie M. Miller Stevens ’56 Lawrence Henson ’31 Franklin S. Calmes ’49 July 11, 2018 Nov. 9, 1978 June 27, 2018 Dr. William Barlow Newbolt ’56 Audrey E. Ison Maddux ’35 Ruth Barnes Robbins ’49 Aug. 27, 2018 Aug. 2, 2008 May 24, 2018 James J. Buckley ’57 Carolyn Clifford Wickline ’49 July 17, 2018 1940s Obituary Unavailable Opal Payne Spurlock ’43 Leon A. Welting ’57 Dec. 10, 2017 July 24, 2018 1950s Mary Lou Randles Bothe ’43 Alice Umans Abramson ’50 William C. Grimsley ’57 July 9, 2018 Sept. 4, 2018 May 24, 2018

Brenda Hall Cole ’43 Shirley Clifford Bulla ’50 Mary Ellen Yates Miller ’57 Aug. 20, 2018 Aug. 5, 2018 June 9, 2018

Blanche C. Newman Patsy P. Hamilton ’50 Doralyn Brashear Hurt ’57 Wife of Carl Newman ’43 Aug. 18, 2018 Feb. 19, 2018 Nov. 22, 2017 Lt. Col. Don H. Hall ’51 Patsy Back Cook ’57 John Neville Holeman, Navy V-12 ’44 May 2, 2018 Sept. 22, 2018 Mar. 23, 2018 Jean Ratcliffe Robinson ’51 Maurice O’Keefe Ellen Hillman West ’44 June 21, 2018 Husband of Joyce O’Keefe ’58 May 16, 2018 Dec. 30, 2017 Peggy Moon Anderson ’51 Ann J. Bunis Aug. 26, 2018 Vernon Lyle Underwood ’58 Wife of Alvin W. Bunis ’44 June 13, 2018 June 7, 2017 Margaret Ray Randall ’52 Apr. 23, 2018 Joyce Kesner ’58 James Hunter ’44 July 27, 2018 Obituary Unavailable Bruce Porter Husband of Nell Porter ’52 Carolyn Brasel Enright ’58 Jean Vandiver Bishoff ’45 Aug. 5, 2017 Apr. 30, 2018 July 7, 2018 Millicent Fletcher Proctor ’53 Geraldine Dunigan Morgan ’59 Fern Goode Porter ’45 April 18, 2018 Jan. 11, 2018 Sept. 17, 2018 Deborah M. Owens Shirley Johnson Deaton ’59 Dr. Blaine F. Parker ’46 Wife of James E. Owens ’54 July 13, 2018 June 17, 2018 Nov. 30, 2016

SUMMER 2018 53 Phillip Wayne Roberts ’59 Jack Bender ’64 Joyce Cummisk Hannan ’77 July 10, 2018 Dec. 2, 2011 Aug. 16, 2018

Hubert A. Henkle ’65 Karen Hatfield Wilder ’79 1960s Apr. 27, 2018 July 4, 2018 Louisa Looper Williams ’60 Helen Kendrick Delemarre ’65 May 27, 2018 Aug. 27, 2016 Robin Porter ’79 July 25, 2018 Robert Taft Bumgarner ’60 Merry Detchon Tausch ’66 Aug. 1, 2018 June 14, 2018 1980s Hazel F. Dicken ’61 Ray G. Gabbard ’66 Debra Jean Clark ’81 May 30, 2018 Jan. 7, 2018 June 20, 2018

Joy Cline Shoemaker ’61 Dr. Theodore Fuller ’67 Vernon Reacel Prince ’83 Jan. 24, 2018 Sept. 8, 2018 July 25, 2018

Shirley Mclntosh Richardson ’61 Rosemary Ashby ’68 Steven Lamson Davenport ’89 Mar. 5, 2017 Obituary Unavailable Jan. 1, 2018

Harold Locke Taylor ’61 Aug. 30, 2018 1970s 1990s Jack Leon Miller ’70 Kenneth Dewayne Norris ’90 Virgil Catron May 10, 2018 June 4, 2018 Husband of Meral D. Catron ’62 June 13, 2018 Jack D. Miller ’72 Kim A. Jenkins-McClements ‘90 May 10, 2018 July 26, 2018 Isaac F. Bledsoe ’63 July 18, 2018 Carolyn Howard Bowles ’72 June 1, 2018 2010s Robert N. Young ’63 Ian R. Klenk ’19 June 17, 2018 July 30, 2018

Milton Owens Nelson Husband of Diane Nelson ’63 Read full obituaries on our website at May 2, 2018 www.berea.edu/magazine

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